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Margaret Pollock Sherwood
1864–1955
A longtime Wellesley College professor, she wrote fiction, essays, poetry, and criticism with the same thoughtful eye she brought to teaching literature. Her career joined academic life and creative writing in a way that feels both serious and warmly human.
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 Princess Pourquoi
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
The Worn Doorstep
by Margaret Pollock Sherwood
About the author
Born in Ballston Spa, New York, in 1864, Margaret Pollock Sherwood became an American author and professor of English literature whose work ranged across novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. She studied at Vassar College and later earned a PhD from Yale, building a scholarly career alongside a steady life in print.
Sherwood taught at Wellesley College for more than four decades and was eventually named professor emeritus. Her writing reflects that broad literary life: she published fiction as well as reflective prose and criticism, and she was active during a period when women scholars were helping shape American higher education and literary culture.
She died in 1955, leaving behind both her books and a substantial record of her academic and personal life. Archival collections at Wellesley preserve manuscripts, correspondence, journals, photographs, and other papers that show how fully she moved between the classroom and the writer's desk.