author
Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
1857–1945
Known for vivid stories of small-town life and moral choices, this American novelist, short story writer, and poet became a widely read voice in late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction. Her work often explored conscience, marriage, religion, and the pressures placed on women.
11 Audiobooks
The Awakening of Helena Richie
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
Dr. Lavendar's People
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Vehement Flame
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Wisdom of Fools
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
The Iron Woman
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 Rising Tide
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
An Encore
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
An Old Chester Secret
by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
About the author
Born Margaretta Wade Campbell in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1857, she was orphaned as an infant and raised by relatives. She studied art at Cooper Union in New York, taught drawing for a time, and later married Lorin Fuller Deland, taking the name Margaret Deland.
She built a successful literary career as a novelist, short story writer, and poet. Her fiction is especially remembered for its portraits of small-town American life and for the way it brings moral and social questions into everyday settings. Readers often connect her with literary realism, and she is also known for writing an autobiography in two volumes.
Beyond her writing, Deland was remembered for her concern for other people and for the social world around her. That blend of storytelling, sympathy, and clear-eyed observation helped make her one of the notable American women writers of her era.