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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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born

October 31, 1862 in Randolph, Mass., The United States

died

March 13, 1930

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female

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Literature & Fiction

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She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood.[1] Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont.
Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories a...more

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Average rating: 3.91 · 919 ratings · 104 reviews · 76 distinct works

	The Revolt of "Mother" and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Dover Thrift Editions 3.85 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions	My rating:
	A New England Nun and Other Stories 3.60 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1891 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural 3.96 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1903 — 29 editions	My rating:
	Pembroke 3.87 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1894 — 27 editions	My rating:
	The Pumpkin Giant by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Ellin Greene, Trina Schart Hyman 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Short Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1979 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Selected Stories 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A Humble Romance and Other Stories 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1887 — 15 editions	My rating:
	The Shadows on The Wall 2.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	My rating:
	A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Reichardt (Introduction) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:

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