K’port’s rebellious literary maven is trending online.

By Colin W. Sargent

As a young novelist, Margaret Deland (1857-1945) grabbed the world by the throat. Denounced as “wicked and immoral,” her first novel shocked Victorian America with the dramatic depiction of a minister who suddenly frightened his congregation—and his wife—by dropping the bomb that he no longer believed in Hell. Talk about flipping the script. It was a secret cry for modernism, if not the ages. Even more daring: in the stunning final pages of the book, the couple fails to reconcile. I mean, what the Hell?

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