Author · United States · 1857–1945
Margaret Deland
Moral realism of community, work, and compromise in American towns.
Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.
Genres
Literary fiction
Conscience in community for 2026
Margaret Deland studies how conscience moves through families, churches, and shops. Decisions are concrete, costs are real, and kindness is never cheap. In polarized seasons she offers a vocabulary for patient reform. Read her to think about neighborliness as duty and about the slow art of making a life.
