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The Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Megapack: 59 Classic Stories
Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her speciality. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. For this volume, we have grouped the most famous of her supernatural stories together at the beginning, then moved on to more mainstream works. I’m certain you will find something you enjoy; her interests and subject matter were broad, and her work holds up remarkably well today.
Included in this volume:
THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH
THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL
LUELLA MILLER
THE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER
THE VACANT LOT
THE LOST GHOST
A FAR-AWAY MELODY
THE LITTLE MAID AT THE DOOR
A SYMPHONY IN LAVENDER
THE HALL BEDROOM
A GENTLE GHOST
THE TWELFTH GUEST
THE JADE BRACELET
THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER
THE PRISM
THE POT OF GOLD
THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS
PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN
THE CHRISTMAS MONKS
THE PUMPKIN GIANT
THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE
DILL
THE SILVER HEN
TOBY
THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL
THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE
A PLAIN CASE
THE STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE
THE BOUND GIRL
DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL
THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER
TWO OLD LOVERS
THE BAR LIGHT-HOUSE
THE STORY OF LITTLE MARY WHITLOW
A MISTAKEN CHARITY
ON THE WALPOLE ROAD
A HUMBLE ROMANCE
A MODERN DRAGON
AN HONEST SOUL
A MORAL EXIGENCY
A TASTE OF HONEY
A GATHERER OF SIMPLES
BRAKES AND WHITE VI'LETS
AN OBJECT OF LOVE
A SOUVENIR
OLD LADY PINGREE
A WAYFARING COUPLE
IN BUTTERFLY TIME
AN OLD ARITHMETICIAN
ROBINS AND HAMMERS
GENTIAN
A CONFLICT ENDED
THE "HORSE HOUSE" DEED
AN UNWILLING GUEST
CINNAMON ROSES
A WANDERING SAMARITAN
A LOVER OF FLOWERS
A PATIENT WAITER
A CONQUEST OF HUMILITY
If you enjoyed this Megapack, please check out the rest of the series -- covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classic authors, and much, much more! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the whole list.
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672 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2013
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About the author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
694 books84 followersMary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 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.
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 and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1902 she married Doctor Charles M. Freeman of Metuchen, New Jersey.
In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
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 and novels. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1902 she married Doctor Charles M. Freeman of Metuchen, New Jersey.
In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
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April 4, 2019
These are excellent stories in the fashion of 19th century sensational fiction (most of them). I bought the book mainly because I was doing research on women horror writers in the 19th century and came across Wilkins Freeman's name. This book isn't made up only of horror stories, though the majority of the stories are psychological horror and fascinating. Some do have abrupt unexplained endings which seemed to have been popular at the time (judging from other similar stories I've read from the period) so that might annoy some readers today. But overall, definitely worth a read.
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