SOURCE: “Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and the Tree of Knowledge,” in New England Local Color Literature: A Women's Tradition, Frederick Ungar, 1983, pp. 119–51.
In the following excerpt, Donovan surveys the various mother-daughter relationships and strong female characters in Freeman's short stories.
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