Around Old Chester- by Margaret Deland

Around Old Chester
by Margaret Deland
New York: Harper and Brothers
c. 1898, 1915 edition

American author Margaret Deland (1857-1945) is perhaps best known for her novel John Ward, Preacher (1888). She also wrote a series of stories set in the fictional town of Old Chester, Pennsylvania. These are delightful stories which remind me of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford.

Chronicles of Carlingford - The Executor

The Executor
by Margaret Oliphant
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Volume 89, pages 595-614
May 1861

The Executor is the first story in Mrs. Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford series. Other titles in the series are:

• The Rector
• The Doctor's Family
• Salem Chapel
• The Perpetual Curate
• Miss Marjoriebanks
• Phoebe Junior

The Women Who Make Our Novels (1918)

The Women Who Make Our Novels
by Grant M. Overton
New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1918

Chapters on

• Edith Wharton
• Alice Brown
• Ellen Glasgow
• Gertrude Atherton
• Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Kathleen Norris
• Margaret Deland
• Gene Stratton-Porter
• Eleanor H. Porter
• Kate Douglas Wiggin
• Mary Johnston
• Corra Harris
• Mary Austin
• Mary S. Watts
• Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
• Anna Katharine Green
• Helen R. Martin
• Sophie Kerr
• Marjorie Benton Cooke
• Grace S. Richmond
• Willa Sibert Cather
• Clara Louise Burnham
• Demeira Vaka
• Edna Ferber
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher
• Amelia E. Barr
• Alice Duer Miller
• Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
• Harriet T. Comstock
• Honore Willsie
• Frances Hodgson Burnett

Click on the title at the beginning of this post to view/download this book at Google Books.

Mrs. Oliphant - Photo

This photo of Mrs. Oliphant is one I have never seen before. I found it in Chambers Cyclopedia of English Literature, Volume 3, page 537, published in 1904.

An Old Virginia Ghost Story

An Old Virginia Ghost Story
by Mary Virginia Terhune

Library of American Literature
Volume 8, 1889

Review - The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales

Review from The Bookman, Volume 8
September 1898 - February 1899, p 492

The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales
by Mrs. Elia Peattie

Aunt Ann's Ghost Story

Aunt Ann's Ghost Story
by Laurence Oliphant
First published in 1864

A ghost story set in Ukraine. Click on the title to go to a downloadable version at Google Books.