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Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins 1852-1930

Overview
Works: 414 works in 1,188 publications in 9 languages and 45,753 library holdings
Genres: American fiction  Children's stories  Love stories  Love poetry  Short stories, American  Domestic fiction  Feminist fiction  Short stories  Children's poetry  Fantasy fiction 
Roles: Bibliographic antecedent
Classifications: ps1712, 813.4
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Most widely held works by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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43 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 1,213 libraries worldwide
"Considered a "regionalist" writer, like Kate Chopin and fellow New Englander Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman spent almost half a century living in New England. A prolific and renowned writer, she had to deal with a new aspect of popularity: celebrity." "This collection shows Freeman's many modes - romantic, gothic, and psychologically symbolic - as well as her use of pathos and sentimentality, dry reserve, and humor, satire, and irony. These last are most vividly expressed in The Jamesons, sketches of village life published here for the first time since the turn of the century. Other stories center on questions of women's integrity, courage, and, often, privation; explore cultural constructions of masculinity; and dramatize the interconnection of rural New England with modern culture and commerce."--BOOK JACKET.
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19 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 1,137 libraries worldwide
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12 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 999 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published in in English and held by 915 libraries worldwide
Few who appreciate the heritage of the short story would question Mary Wilkins Freeman's important position in turn-of-the-century American fiction or her major contributions to the development of the short story form. Freeman (1852-1930), one of the first women elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1927), was a regional writer who excelled in the careful delineation of local characters and customs and in exact transcription of indigenous dialect. She.
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14 editions published between and 1998 in English and held by 856 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1995 in English and held by 813 libraries worldwide
After forty years of living in a cramped farmhouse, a woman reacts to the new barn her husband has built by moving the household into it while he is gone on a trip.
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22 editions published between and 2010 in English and held by 800 libraries worldwide
Dark blue (C183) cloth; lettered in gilt at top and bottom with gilt rules and ornaments, in the style of the Decorative Designers; motif repeated on spine.
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38 editions published between and 2009 in English and held by 770 libraries worldwide
A collection of twenty-eight short stories.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 755 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 754 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 753 libraries worldwide
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42 editions published between and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 693 libraries worldwide
 
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Audience Level
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Audience level: 0.60 (from 0.50 for The revolt ... to 0.74 for Pembroke ...)
A New England nun, and other stories
Alternative Names
Freeman, Mary E. 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary E. (Mary Eleanor), 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins.
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins, 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins), 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary Eleanor, 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, 1852-1930
Wilkins Freeman, Mary Eleanor.
Wilkins Freeman, Mary Eleanor 1852-1930
Wilkins, Mary E.
Wilkins, Mary E., 1852-1930
Wilkins, Mary E. (Mary Eleanor), 1852-1930
Wilkins, Mary Eleanor.
Wilkins, Mary Eleanor, 1852-1930
Wilkins, Mary Ella, 1852-1930
Languages
English (1,144)
Undetermined (30)
German (16)
French (10)
Dutch (4)
Czech (2)
Japanese (1)
Icelandic (1)
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