Della Campbell MacLeod

Della Campbell MacLeod was born on the French Bend Plantation, Greenwood, Mississippi, on the Yazoo River,^[4] ca. 1884.^[3][5] Her parents were Duncan and Nora (Hooker) MacLeod.^[4]

Her education progressed through interruptions, ending with a year at a fashionable finishing school.^[6]

Soon after finishing her education, MacLeod began her career writing book reviews for the New Orleans Picayune,^[7] and serving as Assistant Sunday editor (1905–06). After two years of training there, she came to New York and did freelance work for a year (1908–09). Another year in the Southern United States intervened before her return to New York, where she became a member of the Munsey's Magazine staff. Then she returned to the South again, and was a member of the Baltimore News (1910–13). Returning to New York, she became a special writer on the New York Press.^[6][4] She died there on 29 July 1921.^[1]

• The Maiden Manifest (with illustrations by Harriet Roosevelt Richards; Boston, Little, Brown, & Co., 1913) (text)
• A Lantern of Love: A Novel in Three Parts (1921) (text)
• The Swan and the Mule: A Novel (1922) (text)

• "Omens of Good Luck and Bad" (1908)^[8]
• "Cupid at the Cleaners" (1909)^[9]
• "Life's Honey, a Little Study in Values" (1917)^[10]

• "Costa Rican Indians" (1908)^[11]
• "Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross" (1912)^[12]