author
Margaret Pollock Sherwood
1864–1955
A longtime Wellesley professor who also wrote novels, stories, poems, and essays, she moved easily between scholarship and storytelling. Her work often mixes literary grace with a thoughtful interest in ideas, education, and everyday moral choices.
5 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, 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, Katharine Butler Hathaway, 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
Daphne: An Autumn Pastoral
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
An Experiment in Altruism
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
The Worn Doorstep
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
The Princess Pourquoi
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
About the author
Born in Ballston, New York, in 1864, Margaret Pollock Sherwood built a life in both teaching and writing. She graduated from Vassar, earned a PhD from Yale, and went on to teach English literature at Wellesley College for more than four decades, eventually becoming professor emerita.
Alongside her academic career, she published widely as a writer of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Some of her early fiction appeared under the pen name Elizabeth Hastings, and her books reflect the range of her interests, from social questions and inner life to history and literary culture.
Sherwood remained closely associated with Wellesley long after her retirement in 1930. She died in 1955, leaving behind a body of work that shows both the discipline of a scholar and the curiosity of a versatile author.