TY - SER
KW - Calvinism
KW - Presbyterians
AU - Margaret Deland
AB - Follows 11-year-old Ellen, whose grandmother fails to appreciate her free spiritedness.
C1 - 1860s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh
C4 - Literary; Children’s; Christian
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Novella
N1 - Manchester is disguised as Old Chester.
N2 - Follows 11-year-old Ellen, whose grandmother fails to appreciate her free spiritedness.
PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Company
PP - Boston
PY - 1892
RN - Margaret Deland (1857-1945) was born Margaretta Wade Campbell to Allegheny City, Allegheny County clothing merchants. Her mother died after childbirth and her father died shortly thereafter, so Deland's mother's sister raised her in Manchester, then a borough in Allegheny County. Deland attended boarding school in New York and studied art at Cooper Union. She married Lorin Fuller Deland, Harvard's football coach. Maggie, as she was called, had a deep interest in women's issues and over the years she opened her home to over 60 unwed mothers and their babies. She was a friend to Willa Cather. For magazines, especially <em>Harper's Weekly</em> and <em>The Atlantic Monthly</em>, she published dozens of short stories, most based on her early years in Maple Grove and Manchester. She died in Boston.
EP - 226 p.
TI - The Story of a Child
ER -