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Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
1857–1945
A widely read American novelist and short story writer, she explored small-town life, moral conflict, and the pressure of social expectations with warmth and sharp observation. Her fiction was especially popular around the turn of the twentieth century and helped define a thoughtful, distinctly American kind of domestic realism.
11 Audiobooks
An Old Chester Secret
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
An Encore
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Wisdom of Fools
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Vehement Flame
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Dr. Lavendar's People
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
John Ward, Preacher
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Voice
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Way to Peace
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Awakening of Helena Richie
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Iron Woman
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Rising Tide
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
About the author
Born Margaretta Wade Campbell on February 23, 1857, she became known to readers as Margaret Deland. She was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet whose work found a large audience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Her books often focused on everyday life, conscience, religion, and the quiet struggles inside families and communities. Rather than chasing sensational plots, she wrote about ordinary people making difficult choices, which gave her fiction an intimate, human scale that still feels approachable.
She died on January 13, 1945. In addition to her fiction, she also wrote autobiographical work, leaving behind a record of both a long writing career and the literary world she moved through.