The Rising Tide

Year of Publication
1916
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
292 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
City
New York
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Abstract

Follows Frederica Payton, a “new woman,” who smokes, swears, marches for suffrage, and runs a rental agency.

Notes

Pittsburgh is disguised as Mercer.

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. Frank Walter Taylor (1874-1921), born in Philadelphia, was an illustrator.

Time

1910s

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