Language English Media type Print (Hardback) OCLC 1001773 Originally published 1916 Page count 292 Publisher Harper | Publication date 1916 Pages 292 Preceded by The Iron Woman Genre Novel Country United States of America | |
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Works by Margaret Deland The Iron Woman, The Awakening of Helena, Philip and His Wife, Around Old Chester, The Wisdom of Fools | ||
The Rising Tide is a novel about issues confronting women in the years just before suffrage by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Mercer, an Ohio River community that represents Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The novel tells the story of Frederica Payton, a "new woman" who illustrates the extremes of the feminist question.
It was first published in installments in Harper's Monthly from December 1915 through October 1916.
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