The Rising Tide

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.