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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 – March 13, 1930) was an American author.
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (born Oct. 31, 1852, Randolph, Mass., U.S.—died March 13, 1930, Metuchen, N.J.) was an American writer known for her stories and novels of frustrated lives in New England villages.
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was an American novelist (October 1852 - March 1930) and short story writer. The majority of her writing focused on New England life, a subject which she captured masterfully in her subtle and sublime short story A New England Nun.
In composing her well-received realist depictions of women’s lives in New England villages, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman wrote about the people and places she had known all her life.
A photograph of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born on October 31, 1852 in Randolph, Massachusetts into a family that descended from ancestors who were a part of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay in the 17th century (Westbrook).
Oct 29, 2013 · “Legacy Profile: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 4.1 (1987): 37–45. An excellent biographical article with a surprising amount of detail for a compact essay.
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Called one of the last great genre writers in New England, Mary Eleanor Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1852 and received what little education she had in Brattleboro, Vermont, where the family moved in 1867.
