The complete online text of Jane Field 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...

Field, Jane A. Of Waukesha, died Tues., July 19, 2005 at Waukesha Memorial Hospital at the age of 73, after a courageous battle with leukemia. She was born on Feb. 4, 1932 in Waukesha, the daughter of Walter and Alice (nee Golmgeske) Meidenbauer....

HELEN FIELDING'S 1998 Bridget Jones' Diary was an immediate international bestseller, charting a year in the life of a single British woman in her early thirties who struggles to balance feminism, the desire to have a boyfriend, smoking, drinking, eating (over the course...