Dr. Lavendar's People

Year of Publication
1903
Publication Type
Short Stories
Number of Pages or Episodes
370 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Margaret Deland
Tertiary Author: Lucius Hitchcock
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
City
New York
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Abstract
Six stories set in Old Chester, a stand-in for Manchester. In "The Note," Dr. Edward Lavendar, assumes a parishoner's debt owed to an enemy.
Notes
North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. Manchester is disguised as Old Chester.
Author Biography
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 Harper's Weekly and The Atlantic Monthly, she published dozens of short stories, most based on her early years in Maple Grove and Manchester. She died in Boston. Lucius Hitchcock (1868-1942), born in New Rochelle, New York, was an illustrator.
Time
1860s-70s
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