Margaret Deland Writing Toward Insight

A Hundred Years Ago Margaret Deland Was A Top American Author On Par With Mark Twain William Dean Howells Or Thomas Hardy. She Rubbed Elbows With Presidents And Became A Prominent Member Of Boston Society. But She Is Also A Study In Contradictions And Almost Unknown Today. This Civil War Era Orphan Raised By Old School Presbyterians Became An Independent Self-Made Woman During Victorian Times. She Captures The Struggles Of Nineteenth Century Women In Her Novels; She Took Unwed Mothers Into Her Home But Declined To Join The Suffragette Movement. Her Literary Success Did Not Deter Her From Assisting Soldiers In Europe During World War I Or Mingling With Persons Of Very Diverse Backgrounds And Faiths. But Beneath An Interesting Life And Career Is A Deep Study And Questioning Of Beliefs. A Quest For Objective Confirmation Of An Afterlifeespecially After The Death Of Her Beloved Husband Lorinled Her Into Contact With Mediums Psychical Research And Spiritualism. This In-Depth And Very Personal Biography Reveals How Relevant Margarets Life Work And Ultimate Insights Are To Our Own.