Author | Margaret Deland |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company |
Publication date
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1894 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 438 |
OCLC | 959019 |
Preceded by | Sidney |
Followed by | The Awakening of Helena Richie |
Philip and His Wife is a novel by the American writer Margaret Deland (1857–1945) set in the 19th century fictional locale of Old Chester, a Western Pennsylvania rural village near Pittsburgh.
The novel tells the story of Philip and Cecil Shore, whose marriage is a failure, and the book explores the complications of divorce and morality among the middle classes.
It was first published in installments in Atlantic Monthly from January through October 1894.