Deland
Deland names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Deland Mrs. Margaret Wade Campbell
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Mrs. Margaret Wade Campbell, an American novelist. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1857. She was educated at the Cooper Union , New York , and for some time was a teacher of drawing. She was married in 1880 to L. F. Deland. Since her marriage she has resided in Boston. Her first novel, John Ward, Preacher, published in 1888, attracted wide notice. It is the story of a woman whose soul revolts against the accepted religious beliefs which her husband preaches. Philip and His Wife deals with the divorce question. The Awakening of Helena Ritchie is a much later story, and unquestionably the best of Mrs. Deland's novels. Its vital question is that of the responsibility of one human life to all life, and it teaches that renunciation for the common good is repaid in spiritual growth and development. Mrs. Deland is best known by her short stories which have won her a place among the "representative storytellers of America." These, published originally in the magazines, have been collected in two volumes, Old Chester Tales and Dr. Lavender's People. They are stories of Pennsylvania village life. Most of them, like the novels, deal with some ethical problem. They display a fine discrimination in the peculiarities of character, a clear beauty, and delicacy of touch, which has led to a comparison with the work of Jane Austen. Mrs. Deland, however, displays the greater depth of feeling and wider sympathy. She strikes at the root of spiritual growth or spiritual stagnation, as the case may be. Among her characters, Dr. Lavender and the irresistible David are genuine creations.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MARGARETTA WADE (CAMPBELL) (de-land'), an American poet and novelist; born in Allegheny, Pa., Feb. 23, 1857. Her most famous books are " John Ward, Preacher " and " Dr. decorating many Lavendar's People." Among her other well - known works are: " The Story of a Child," "Mr. Tommy Dove and Other Stories," "Philip and His Wife," "Florida Days," a collection of sketches of travel; "Sydney." "The Awakening of Helena Richie" (1906); "The Iron Woman" MARGARETTA DELAND (1911); "Hands of Esau" (1914); "Around Old Chester" (1915). Her most contained in the popular poems are " entitled The Old Garden and Other Verses." volume
Deland ELLEN DOUGLAS, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ELLEN DOUGLAS, an American author, born in Lake Mahopac, N. Y., in 1860. She was educated privately. Her writings include many novels, among them "A Successful Venture"; "Alan Ransford"; "Miss Betty of New York"; "The Waring Girls" (1917); "Clyde Corners" (1918).
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Aiton's wrote in 1910 that Margaret Deland stood among the "representative storytellers of America," she was one of the best-selling novelists in the country; John Ward, Preacher (1888) had been a sensation. She kept writing for another thirty years, publishing The Rising Tide (1916), The Vehement Flame (1922) and the memoirs If This Be I (1935) and Golden Yesterdays (1941), and died in Boston in 1945 at 88. Today almost none of it is in print and the comparison to Jane Austen that Aiton's makes would strike few readers as obvious; she survives mainly in academic work on American regional fiction and on women writers of the period, and for the unmarried mothers she and her husband sheltered in their Boston home. Ellen Douglas Deland, the separate author of girls' novels listed by Collier's in 1921, is more thoroughly forgotten still.
Written for this edition, 2026.