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 fictional 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.

The novel was first published in installments in The Atlantic Monthly from January through October 1894.

[1] The theme of divorce was a controversial one in the mid 1890s when the book was published and a bold choice by Deland for her third novel.

[2] The story does not provide a resolution for the couple seeking divorce but does carefully trace their unhappiness, which is veiled through the mask of conventional attitudes of the period.