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The Revolt of ’Mother’ by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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Name: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Variant Name: Mary Wilkins, Mary E Wilkins Freeman, Mary E(leanor) Wilkins Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Wilkins Freeman
Birth Date: October 31, 1852
Death Date: March 13, 1930
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
7160 words, approx. 23.9 pages
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...
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Biography of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
6700 words, approx. 22.3 pages
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'...
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Biography of Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
3402 words, approx. 11.3 pages
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...


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Academic Exchange Quarterly
Renaming the world: freeman's revolt of mother.
06/22/2003: 6,625 words, approx. 22 pages
Abstract This paper shows how a stylistic approach of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "The Revolt o 'Mother'" best articulates Mrs. Penn's self-assertion and appropriation of male discourse. Indeed Mrs. Penn's increasing control of language and assertion of her subjectivity become more evident...
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Mother finds book's rhymes revolting
10/18/1992: 1,219 words, approx. 4 pages
"I guess you think you know this story. You don't. The real one's much more gory. The phoney one, the one you know, Was cooked up years and years ago, And made to sound all soft and sappy. Just to keep the children happy." "Cinderella"...
 


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