Background
Freeman was born on October 31, 1852 in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her "Mary Ella".
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A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader (French Modernist Library)
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Mary Wilkins Freeman (18521930), born in Randolph, Massachusetts, began to publish stories about New England in the early 1880s. In the following decades, Freeman drew widespread praise for her intimate portraits of women and her realistic depictions of rural New England life. She published short stories, essays, novels, plays, and childrens books. Her stories, written in a clear and direct prose, are remarkable for their unpretentious, sympathetic portrayals of the lives of ordinary New Englanders of Freemans era. Many of the stories depict rebellion against oppressive social and private conditions. Others describe conflicting desires for independence and lasting relationships. This volume of twenty-eight stories is the first to provide a representative sample of Freemans finest work, from all phases of her career. It makes plain why Freeman (in the words of editor Mary R. Reichardt) is widely recognized as an important figure in the history of American womens fiction . . . and the development of the American short story.
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Collected Ghost Stories
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Collected Ghost Stories is a posthumous collection of stories by author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. It was released in 1974 by Arkham House in an edition of 4,155 copies. The book is the first collection of all of Freeman's supernatural stories and her first book published by Arkham House.
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A New-England Nun: And Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
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Considered a "regionalist" writer, like Kate Chopin and fellow New Englander Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman began writing at a time in America's history when literature was becoming the first "culture industry", and she found a growing market for her work in popular magazines. This collection shows Freeman's many modes -- romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic -- as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, of dry reserve, and of humor, satire, and irony. These last are most vividly expressed in The Jamesons, a series of sketches about village life reprinted for the first time since the turn of the century. Also included here are stories that center on questions of women's integrity, courage, and, often, privation; that explore cultural constructions of masculinity; and that dramatize the interconnection of rural New England with modern culture and commerce.
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Short Story Masterpieces (Classic Reprint)
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A Humble Romance: And Other Stories
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The Jamesons
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An Alabaster Box
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Six trees: Short stories
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Mary E. Wilkins's Collected Works
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Mary E. Wilkins's Collected Works contained 20 works written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. These are the 20 works of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman in this book: 1. THE ADVENTURES OF ANN (1886) 2. A New England Nun (1891) 3. Jane Field (1892) 4. Comfort Pease And her Gold Ring (1895) 5. Madelon (1896) 6. Jerome, A Poor Man (1897) 7. SILENCE AND OTHER ST.. (1898) 8. Evelina's Garden (1899) 9. THE JAMESONS (1899) 10. Pembroke (1900) 11. THE HEART'S HIGHWAY (1900) 12. The Portion of Labor (1901) 13. The Wind in the Rose-Bush And..(1903) 14. The givers (1904) 15. The Debtor (1905) 16. A FAR-AWAY MELODY AND..(1905) 17. By the Light of the Soul (1907) 18. The Shoulders of Atlas (1908) 19. THE GREEN DOOR (1910) 20. The Butterfly House (1912)
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The Pot of Gold: And Other Stories (1892)
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The Heart's Highway
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A Humble Romance and Other Stories
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The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Edit ProfileEducation
Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–1871. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro.
Career
Mary contributed poems and stories to children's magazines and published several books for children, including Young Lucretia and Other Stories (1802), The Pot of Gold and Other Stories (1892), and Once Upon a Time and other Child Verses (1897).
For older readers she wrote the following volumes of short stories: A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887), A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), Silence and Other Stories (1898), three books which gave her a prominent place among American short-story writers; The People of Our Neighborhood (1898), The Love of Parson Lord and other Stories (1900), Understudies (1901) and The Givers (1904); the novels Jane Field (1892), Pembroke (1894), Madelon (1896), Jerome, a Poor Man (1897), The Jameson (1899), The Portion of Labor (1901) and The Debtor (1905); and Giles Corey, Yeoman (1893), a prose tragedy founded on incidents from New England history.
Achievements
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Her longer novels, though successful in the portrayal of character, lack something of the unity, suggestiveness and charm of her short stories, which are notable contributions to modern American literature. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Works
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Short Story Masterpieces (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from Short Story Masterpieces There was the mere...)
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A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader (French Modernist Library)
( Mary Wilkins Freeman (18521930), born in Randolph, Mas...)
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A New-England Nun: And Other Stories (Penguin Classics)
(Considered a "regionalist" writer, like Kate Chopin and f...)
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A Humble Romance and Other Stories
(This book, "A Humble Romance: And Other Stories", by Mary...)
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Collected Ghost Stories
(Collected Ghost Stories is a posthumous collection of sto...)
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The Heart's Highway
(Bronte's Jane Eyre is an adored classic and enchanting ad...)
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An Alabaster Box
(An Alabaster Box is presented here in a high quality pape...)
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Six trees: Short stories
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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The Pot of Gold: And Other Stories (1892)
(Originally published in 1892. This volume from the Cornel...)
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Mary E. Wilkins's Collected Works
(Mary E. Wilkins's Collected Works contained 20 works writ...)
- A Humble Romance: And Other Stories
- The Jamesons
- The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural
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Short Story Masterpieces (Classic Reprint)
Religion
Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works.
Views
Mary deals usually with a few traits peculiar to the village and country life of New England, and she gave literary permanence to certain characteristics of New England life which are fast disappearing.
Connections
Mary married to Dr. Charles Manning Freeman on 1 January in 1902.
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Born
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March 13, 1930 (aged 78) -
Resting place
Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, New Jersey, United States -
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Religion
congregationalist