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Margaret Pollock Sherwood
1864–1955
A Wellesley professor who turned classroom insight into thoughtful fiction, essays, and poems, she wrote about compassion, conscience, and the limits of easy reform. Her work moved between college life, social questions, and literary criticism with unusual range.
5 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
The Princess Pourquoi
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
The Worn Doorstep
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
An Experiment in Altruism
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
About the author
Born in Ballston, New York, in 1864, Margaret Pollock Sherwood studied at Vassar College and later pursued further study at the University of Zurich, the University of Oxford, and Yale, where she earned a Ph.D. She spent most of her professional life at Wellesley College, teaching English literature from 1889 until her retirement in 1931.
Alongside her academic career, she built a substantial body of writing that included novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Her first novel, An Experiment in Altruism (1895), appeared under the pseudonym Elizabeth Hastings and drew attention for its sharp look at charity and social responsibility. She also wrote works such as Henry Worthington, Idealist and Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral, and contributed to magazines including The Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, and The Smart Set.
Sherwood's writing is often remembered for bringing moral and social questions into vivid, personal stories rather than treating them in the abstract. She remained connected to the institutions she cared about throughout her life, supporting both Vassar and Wellesley through scholarships and gifts that continued her influence after her death in 1955.