TY - SER
KW - ministers
KW - siblings
KW - iron industry
KW - widows and widowers
KW - Protestants
AU - Margaret Deland
AB - Four stories set in Western Pennsylvania. In “House of Rimmon,” a clergyman’s widow moves in with her brother, a Pittsburgh capitalist, to raise her children. The widow leaves when she decides she cannot accept her brother’s support because he exploits his iron workers.
C1 - 1860-70s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; North Side; Manchester
C4 - Literary; Christian
CY - Boston
LA - English
M3 - Short Stories
N1 - North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known.
N2 - Four stories set in Western Pennsylvania. In “House of Rimmon,” a clergyman’s widow moves in with her brother, a Pittsburgh capitalist, to raise her children. The widow leaves when she decides she cannot accept her brother’s support because he exploits his iron workers.
PB - Houghton, Mifflin and Company
PP - Boston
PY - 1897
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 - 248 p.
TI - The Wisdom of Fools
ER -