This volume brings together the works of two important American writers. Both Jewett and Freeman used as their settings the small towns of 19th-century New England, both created as their principal characters mature and elderly women. Their etched dra...
Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse traders, and more face 'Doc.' Gordon! MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died ...
Six months after Arthur's attempt to purchase back his ancestral acres, a man came to him with a proposal for him to furnish on contract a large quantity of coal for the railroad. Arthur jumped at the chance.
The contract was drawn up by a lawyer...
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman's husband, who suffered from alcoholism and an addiction to sleeping powders, was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane in Trenton, and the two legally separated a year later. After his death in 1923, ...
Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and at fifteen moved with her family to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1884, left without any immediate family, she returned to Randolph, where she lived for almost twenty years with her childhood friend Mary Wal...
It was very early in the morning, it was scarcely dawn, when the young man started upon a walk of twenty-five miles to reach Alton, where he was to be assistant to the one physician in the place, Doctor Thomas Gordon, or as he was familiarly called, ...
Out in front of the cemetery stood a white horse and a covered wagon.The horse was not tied, but she stood quite still, her four feetwidely and ponderously planted, her meek white head hanging. Shadowsof leaves danced on her back. There were many tre...
The 6 stories in this collection add a new dimension to the fictional portrayal of New England life. The author's apparently simple, declarative prose moves the reader convincingly into a world where ghosts dwell and evil is real. These stories c...
This Indenture Wittnesseth, That I Margaret Burjust of Boston, in the County of Suffolk and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Have placed, and by these presents do place and bind out my only Daughter whose name is Ann Ginnins to be an...
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THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became known. Two little boys and a little girl can keep a secret-that is, sometimes. The two little boys had the advantage of the little girl because they could talk over the affair together, and the little gi...
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
Excerpt from The Fair Lavinia Henry gave the other young man an im patient Shove. Enough of this nonsense He cried, angrily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenboo...
"We express our unfeigned admiration for her delicate work, when we first made acquaintance with it in A Far-away Melody. Miss Wilkins's fiction is, so far as the English tongue is concerned, unrivalled-a thing to itself. It depicts the humble villag...
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"This 1904 collection of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's short stories contains: ""The Givers,"" ""The Revolt of Sophia,"" ""Lucy,"" ""Eglantina,"" ""Joy,"" ""The Reign of the Doll,"" ""The Chance of Araminta,"" ""The Butterfly,"" and ""The Last Gift."""...
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
At half-past six o'clock on Sunday night Barnabas came out of his bedroom. The Thayer house was only one story high and there were no chambers. A number of little bedrooms were clustered around the three square rooms -- the north and south parlors an...
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
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Award-winning short-story writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was a gifted storyteller whose work was published in countless magazines. Young Lucretia and Other Stories collects thirteen tales, including the title story, “Seventoes’ Ghost,” and “W...
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Excerpt from Chapter 1: ..".Run along." Wesley Elliot obeyed. He always obeyed, at least in the literal sense, when Mrs. Solomon Black ordered him. There was about her a fairly masterly maternity. She loved the young minister as firmly for his own go...
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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 ...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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“There are few writers of short stories whose work has such distinction as that of Miss Mary E. Wilkins. Much as we admire the many good qualities in her longer novels, especially Pembroke, we feel that she is at her best in those dainty little ske...
Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852 1930), 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 depiction...
A collection that shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, humour, satire and irony. These stories centre on questions of women's integrity, courage and privation; ...
Excerpt from Once Upon a Time: And Other Child-Verses
Rusting to the sweet Char ity Of little folk TO find some grace, in spite Of halting rhyme And frequent telling, in these little tales.
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins-Freeman (1852-1930) was a prominent female American writer known for her short stories and novels of life in New England villages. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her fa...
Eight poignant tales vividly portray patient, self-reliant heroines living in small New England villages .Well-known title story plus "A New England Nun," "Old Woman Magoun," "Gentian," "One Good Time," "The Selfishness of Amelia Lamkin," "The Apple ...
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism w...
MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died in Metuchen, New Jersey. Among her published regional short fiction and novels are A Humble Romance and Other Stories, A New England Nun and Other Stories, Jane Field, a...