Introductory Sketch
Pembroke was originally intended as a study
of the human will in several New England characters,
in different phases of disease and abnormal development,
and to prove, especially i...
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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...
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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 stori...
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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 cre...
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Pembroke
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman