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...
Until I was 11 we lived in a village in Gloucestershire called Stinchcombe. The house, Piers Court, was square, grey stone and Georgian, with a pretty escutcheon over the front door and a much earlier rear part dating back to Charles II. The house...
PARSING A SPLENDID, LURID MEMOIR OF LIFE AT S.F.'S O'FARRELL THEATER Brothers Jim and Artie Mitchell are sex-industry legends. They're best known for producing several porn films (including Behind the Green Door) and running the infamous strip club, the O'Farrell Theater. Opened in...
J. Donald BrandtWILMINGTON, Del. (AP) _ J. Donald Brandt, a veteran Delaware journalist and former editor of The News Journal of Wilmington, died Thursday. He was 78.Brandt died in the West Indies, where he and his wife retired, after being hospitalized on Montserrat with a...
