Document Type
Finding Aids
Publication Date
2018
Collection Date
1857-1945
Identifier
DELAND.1
Description
The collection includes correspondence, manuscripts, and first publications of Maine writer, Margaret Wade Deland. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written by Deland to various correspondents between 1884 and 1944. The collection also contains manuscript items of varying length, clippings, published writings, and a few photographic prints. Born Margaret Wade Campbell near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1857, Deland moved to Boston in 1880. She is known principally for the novel "John Ward, Preacher" and her 'Old Chester' books, based on communities where she grew up. She received a Doctorate of Letters from Bates College in 1920, and had a summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine. She died in 1945.
Recommended Citation
Collection of Margaret Wade Deland Materials, Colby College Special Collections, Waterville, Maine.
Included in
American Literature Commons, Fiction Commons, Literature in English, North America Commons