Title | Sidney |
Year of Publication | 1890 |
Publication Type | Novel |
Number of Pages or Episodes | 429 p. |
Language | English |
Authors | Deland, Margaret |
Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company |
City | Boston |
Keywords | Calvinism; Presbyterians; romantic relationships; widows and widowers |
Abstract | A character study of Major Mortimer Lee and his daughter Sidney. When Mortimer’s wife dies, he abandons his faith in God and in life itself, and vows to protect his daughter from the pain of love and loss that he's experienced. Despite her father's advice, Sidney falls deeply in love with Allan Crossan, but he also dies. |
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 | 1880s |