The Story of a Child

Year of Publication
1892
Publication Type
Novella
Number of Pages or Episodes
226 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Margaret Deland
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
City
Boston
Genre
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Abstract
Follows 11-year-old Ellen, whose grandmother fails to appreciate her free spiritedness.
Notes
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.
Time
1860s
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