The complete online text of Giles Corey, Yeoman by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman.

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...

Within the finest writings of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, the New England past is rarely far removed from present action or inaction. Her characters often function in the context of restrictions others or they themselves have placed upon them in earlier days.(1) In...

SMITHFIELD -- SMITHFIELD - William Grover "Billy" Yeoman III, passed away March 30, 2008, at his home following an extended illness. Born Dec. 11, 1942, he was the son of William Grover and Elizabeth Garrison Yeoman. Mr. Yeoman was a lifelong resident of...