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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971).
Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life in New England. A respected and popular writer with an international audience, her analytical tenderness and the moral dilemmas of her characters inspired her audience to think as they read.
Novelist and poet. Margaretta Wade Campbell married Lorin F. Deland in 1880. While she and her husband began providing a refuge for unmarried mothers, Campbell began to write, publishing her first book, The Old Garden and Other Verses, in 1886. She wrote nine novels, several short-story collections, and a two-volume autobiography.
Margaret Deland, born in Allegheny, Pa. in 1857, had a long and prosperous writing career that bridged the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her cousin, Madeleine Wade Poindexter, also born and raised in Allegheny, lived in Los Angelas, California as a adult.
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland (1857-1945) was an American writer of poetry, short stories and novels. Deland was immensely popular during her own lifetime, a popularity that was born with the publication of her first novel, John Ward, preacher (1888), and continued throughout her lengthy writing career. A member of Boston's intellectual circuit, Deland was also interested in issues of the period such as spiritualism and the rights of women. During the first World War, Deland participated in the relief effort in France for which she was awarded the Legion of Honor cross. Deland's last major work was her autobiography, Golden yesterdays, which she published in 1941 at the age of eighty-four.
Deland was an American author best know for her tales of "Old Chester" grouped about the character "Dr. Lavendar."
Author of popular novels and short stories and one of the first women elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
American author.
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1857, Feb. 28. Born, Allegheny, Pa.
1880. Married Lorin Deland.
1926. First woman elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.
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