'Oh, Charlotte, Charlotte!' he moaned, and his voice was drowned out by the manifold rustling of the young birch leaves, as a human grief is overborne and carried out of sight by the soft, resistless progress of nature."
Herself a product of the world of her fiction, Mary Wilkins's fragile beauty seemed at odds with the staunch Calvinist tone of her New England upbringing. Born into a respected family of the small town of Randolph, Massachusetts, Mary Eleanor Wilkins claimed ancestry dating back to Sir Thomas de Moulton (a knight who served Richard, Coeur de Lion) on her father's side and kinship to Lothrop Stoddard (well-known writer and lecturer) from her maternal branch. Her mother, Eleanor Lothrop, came from one of the founding families of East Randolph, Massachusetts, and Mary Wilkins inherited, along with her blue eyes and delicate features, a strong puritanical sense of moral rectitude.
Of the four children born to Warren and Eleanor Wilkins, Mary Eleanor alone survived beyond her teens, and her parents in their anxiety treated her with extravagant care.
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