Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.
While working as secretary to the author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., she began writing poetry and novels with a strong New England regional flavor. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1902 she married Dr. Charles M. Freeman of Metuchen, New Jersey.
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. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
In this ebook:
The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural
The Pot of Gold, And Other Stories
The Copy-Cat and Other Stories
The Green Door
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
Evelina's Garden
Pembroke, A Novel
The Debtor, A Novel
'Doc.' Gordon
The Adventures of Ann, Stories of Colonial Times
The Yates Pride
The Butterfly House
Jane Field, A Novel
Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring
The Jamesons
By the Light of the Soul, A Novel
Jerome, A Poor Man, A Novel
The Portion of Labor
The Shoulders of Atlas, A Novel
Madelon, A Novel
The Yates Pride
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