The Heart’s Highway
I
In 1682, when I was thirty years of age and Mistress
Mary Cavendish just turned of eighteen, she and I
together one Sabbath morning in the month of April
were riding to mee...
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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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The Heart's Highway
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman