The Kays

Title	The Kays
Year of Publication	1926
Publication Type	Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes	336 p.
Language	English
Authors	Deland, Margaret
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
City	New York
Keywords	American Civil War; bars; Black Americans; gambling; lotteries; Native Americans; Old Reliable Lottery; pacifists; Pennsylvania Society for the Supression of Lotteries; Protestants; Quakers; slavery
Abstract	A Civil War-era novel of ideas about pacifist Arthur Kay, who refuses to join the Union Army.
Notes	North Side is referred to as Allegheny City, as it was then known. Settings are disguised as follows: Pittsburgh is Mercer; Manchester is Old Chester. First serialized in Woman's Home Companion.
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.
Time	1861-4

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