The Rising Tide

First edition
Author	Margaret Deland
Country	USA
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Harper & Brothers
Publication date	1916
Media type	Print (Hardback)
Pages	292
OCLC	1001773
Preceded by	The Iron Woman

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.

External links

• The Rising Tide (1916) ( Internet Archive e-text)

References

• Deland, Margaret (1916). The Rising Tide. New York: Harper & Brothers.
• Reep, Diana C. (1985). Margaret Deland. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0-8057-7420-3.