Educated at private schools and Cooper Union in New York City, Deland taught drawing for a time before beginning her literary career. She published a collection of poems, The Old Garden, in 1886 and her first novel, John Ward, Preacher, in 1888, which was rather controversial at the time. In 1926, Deland was elected to the National Institute of Arts & Letters. Her best known works include Old Chester Tales (1899), Dr. Lavender's People (1903), The Awakening of Helena Richie (1906), Around Old Chester (1915), The Vehement Flame (1922), New Friends in Old Chester (1924) and her autobiography, If This Be I (1935). |
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