Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ranks among the foremost interpreters of New England village and rural life. Though she may correctly be described as a local colorist, she is much more, for in her short stories and novels she deals perceptively with the 250-year...
The life of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman has too often been compared to that of the spinsters who populate much of her fiction. Although she lived most of her life in small New England villages and did not marry until she was forty-nine years of age, Freeman'...
A small doll-like woman, who never wished to grow old and yet came to resemble so many of her aging heroines, created in her fiction the heart of New England's life and ethos. Mary Wilkins Freeman created strong-willed characters, whose Yankee stoicism o...
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The Washington Post
In The Garden 03/30/2000: 511 words, approx. 2 pages
If gardening is a lifelong journey, Elaine Evans wants you to pick up the pace. Evans runs tours of garden-rich regions of the United States from her base in Arlington, combining visits to private and public gardens with stops at specialty plant nurseries. ...
FEW gardens are open to the public between the end of September and Easter. This is a pity, because seeing a garden in winter is often the best way to judge it. Good gardens go on looking good without flowers: it has been said...
