The Vehement Flame

Year of Publication
1922
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
378 p.
Language
English
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Publisher
Harper & Brothers
City
New York
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Abstract
A character study of a 39-year-old wife, whose constant jealousy of her 19-year-old husband is the titular flame that burns down the marriage.
Notes
Frontispiece by C. E. Chambers (1883-1941)
. 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.
Time
1870s
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