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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman: Selected Secondary Bibliography

Aarons, Victoria. "A Community of Women: Surviving Marriage in the Wilderness." Portraits of Marriage in Literature. Eds. Anne C. Hargrove and Maurine Magliocco. Macomb, IL: Essays in Lit., 1984. 141-149.

Alaimo, Stacy. Undomesticated Ground : Recasting Nature as Feminist Space. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Anderson, Donald R. "Giles Corey and the Pressing Past."  American Transcendental Quarterly 14.2 (Jun 2000): 113-128.

Ansley, Jennifer. "Geographies of Intimacy in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, vol. 87, no. 3, 2014, pp. 434-463.

Ashton, Susanna. "Veribly a Purple Cow: The Whole Family and the Collaborative Search for Coherence." Studies in the Novel 33.1 (2001): 51-79.

Bader, Julia. "The Dissolving Vision: Realism in Jewett, Freeman, and Gilman." American Realism: New Essays. Ed. Eric J. Sundquist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1982. 176-198.

Barnstone, Aliki. "Houses within Houses: Emily Dickinson and Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'A New England Nun'." The Centennial Review 28.2 (1984): 129-145.

Barnstone, Aliki. "Houses within Houses: Emily Dickinson and Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'a New England Nun'." The Centennial Review, vol. 28, no. 2, 1984, pp. 129-145.

Barrett, Mike. "Entrances to Elsewhere: The Supernatural Fiction of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." New York Review of Science Fiction, vol. 21, no. 10 [250], 2009, pp. 18-21.

Bauer, Dale M. "The Politics of Collaboration in The Whole Family." Doan, Laura L. (ed. & introd.); Auerbach, Nina (fwd.) Old Maids to Radical Spinsters: Unmarried Women in the Twentieth-Century Novel. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. 107-22.

Behling, Laura L. "Detecting Deviation in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The Long Arm'." American Literary Realism 31.1 (1998): 75-91.

Bendixen, Alfred. The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 1986.

Bergman, Jill and Debra Bernardi. Our Sisters' Keepers: Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. U of Alabama P, 2005.

Bergmann, Ina. "Working Girls: The New Woman in Juvenile and Adult Fiction by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 42, no. 4, 2009, pp. 259-266.

Berkson, Dorothy. "'A Goddess behind a Sordid Veil': The Domestic Heroine Meets the Labor Novel in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's The Portion of Labor." Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. 149-68.

Bernardi, Debra. "'the Right to Be Let Alone': Mary Wilkins Freeman and the Right to a 'Private Share'." Our Sisters' Keepers : Nineteenth-Century Benevolence Literature by American Women. Eds. Jill Bergman and Debra Bernardi. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2005. x, 299 pp.

Blum, Virginia L. "Mary Wilkins Freeman and the Taste of Necessity." American Literature 65.1 (1993): 69-94.

Blum, Virginia L. "Mary Wilkins Freeman and the Taste of Necessity." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 65, no. 1, 1993, pp. 69-94.

Boren, Lynda S. "Mary Wilkins Freeman." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb), edited by Donald Pizer and Earl N. Harbert, Gale, 1982, pp. xi, 486 pp.

Brand, Alice Glarden. "Mary Wilkins Freeman: Misanthropy as Propaganda." New England Quarterly 50 (1977): 83-100.

Brand, Alice Glarden. "Mary Wilkins Freeman: Misanthropy as Propaganda." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, vol. 50, no. 1, 1977, pp. 83-100.

Broderick, James F. Paging New Jersey: A Literary Guide to the Garden State. Rutgers UP, 2003.

Brown, Lynda. "Anderson's Wing Biddlebaum and Freeman's Louisa Ellis." Studies in Short Fiction 27.3 (1990): 413-14.

Camfield, Gregg. "'I never saw anything at once so pathetic and funny': Humor in the stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Transcendental Quarterly 14.2 (Jun 2000): 215-232.

Camfield, Gregg. "'I Never Saw Anything at Once So Pathetic and Funny': Humor in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1999, pp. 215-231.

Campbell, Donna M. Bitter Tastes: Literary Naturalism and Early Cinema in American Women’s Writing. University of Georgia Press, 2016.

Campbell, Donna M. "Howells' Untrustworthy Realist: Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism, vol. 38, no. 2, 2006, pp. 115-131, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747200.

Campbell, Donna M. "'Where Are the Ladies?' Wharton, Glasgow, and American Women Naturalists." Studies in American Naturalism 1.1-2 (2006): 152-69.

Campbell, Donna M. Resisting Regionalism: Gender and Naturalism in American Fiction, 1885-1915. Ohio University Press, 1997

Carter, James Bucky. "Princes, Beasts, or Royal Pains: Men and Masculinity in the Revisionist Fairy Tales of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies, vol. 20, no. 1, 2006, pp. 3, 30-46, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/marvels_and_tales/v020/20.1carter.html.

Cherciu, Lucia. "'A Veritable Guest to Her Own Self': Mary Wilkins Freeman's Humorous Short Stories." Journal of the Short Story in English, vol. 35, 2000, pp. 21-41.

Church, Joseph. "Reconstructing Woman's Place in Freeman's 'The Revolt of 'Mother'." Colby Quarterly 26.3 (1990): 195-200.

Couch, Ben. "The No-Man's-Land of 'a New England Nun'." Studies in Short Fiction 35.2 (1998): 187-98.

Crowley, John W. "Freeman's Yankee Tragedy: 'Amanda and Love'." Markham Review 5 (1976): 58-60.

Csicsila, Joseph. "Louisa Ellis and the Unpardonable Sin: Alienation from the Community of Human Experience as Theme in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'A New England Nun'." American Literary Realism 30.3 (1998): 1-13.

Csicsila, Joseph. "Louisa Ellis and the Unpardonable Sin: Alienation from the Community of Human Experience as Theme in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'a New England Nun'." American Literary Realism, vol. 30, no. 3, 1998, pp. 1-13, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27746732.

Cutter, Martha J. "Beyond Stereotypes: Mary Wilkins Freeman's Radical Critique of Nineteenth-Century Cults of Femininity." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 21, no. 4, 1992, pp. 383-395.

Cutter, Martha J. "Frontiers of Language: Engendering Discourse in 'The Revolt of 'Mother'." American Literature 63.2 (1991): 279-91.

Cutter, Martha J. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Two New England Nuns." Colby Quarterly 26.4 (1990): 213-225.

Daniel, Janice B. "Freeman's A Church Mouse." Explicator 53.1 (1994): 43-44.

Daniel, Janice. "Redefining Place: Femes Covert in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Studies in Short Fiction 33.1 (1996): 69-76.

Daniel, Janice. "Redefining Place: Femes Covert in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 33, no. 1, 1996, pp. 69-76.

DeEulis, Marilyn Davis. "'Her Box of a House': Spatial Restriction as Psychic Signpost in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'the Revolt of 'Mother' '." Markham Review, vol. 8, 1979, pp. 51-52.

Diederich, Nicole A. "The Gothic as Semiotic Disruption: Layers and Levels of Terror and the Abject in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'the Wind in the Rose-Bush'." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 44, no. 2, 2011, pp. 21-41, http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/23622090.pdf

Diggs, Marylynne. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb), edited by Sharon M. Harris et al., Gale, 2000, pp. xxiii, 460 pp.

Diomedi, Claudette A. Mary Wilkins Freeman and the Romance-Novel Tradition. 1971.

Dixon, Terrell F. "Nature, Gender, and Community: Mary Wilkins Freeman's Ecofiction." Under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism (under the Sign of Nature: Explorations in Ecocriticism), edited by Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, UP of Virginia, 2001, pp. x, 372 pp.

Donovan, Josephine. "Silence or Capitulation: Prepatriarchal 'Mothers' Gardens' in Jewett and Freeman." Studies in Short Fiction 23.1 (1986): 43-48.

Donovan, Josephine. "Women's Masterpieces." Challenging Boundaries: Gender and Periodization. Eds. Joyce W. Warren and Margaret Dickie: U of Georgia P, Athens, GA, 2000. xxiv, 296.

Elbert, Monika M.  "The Displacement of Desire: Consumerism and Fetishism in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Fiction." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 19, no. 2, 2002, pp. 192-215, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v019/19.2elbert.html

Elbert, Monika M. "Mary Wilkins Freeman's Devious Women, Harper's Bazaar, and the Rhetoric of Advertising." Essays in Literature, vol. 20, no. 2, 1993, pp. 251-272.

Elrod, Eileen Rezarri. "Rebellion, Restraint, and New England Religion: The Ambivalent Feminism of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Literary Calvinism and Nineteenth-Century American Women Authors. Ed. Michael Schuldiner. Studies in Puritan American Spirituality (SPAS). Series No: 6. Lewiston, NY: Mellen, 1997. 225-63.

Eppard, Philip and Mary Reichardt. "A Checklist of Uncollected Short Fiction by Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism, vol. 23, no. 1, 1990, pp. 70-74, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27746428.

Eppard, Philip B. "Local Colorists: Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Mary N. Murfree." American Women Writers: Bibliographical Essays. Eds. Maurice Duke, Jackson R. Bryer and M. Thomas Inge. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1983. 21-46.

Eppard, Philip, and Mary Reichardt. "A Checklist of Uncollected Short Fiction by Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism 23.1 (1990): 70-74.

Fienberg, Lorne. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'Soft Diurnal Commotion': Women's Work and Strategies of Containment." The New England Quarterly 62.4 (1989): 483-504.

Fisher, Benjamin F. "Transitions from Victorian to Modern: The Supernatural Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman and Edith Wharton." Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Grlh), edited by Douglas Robillard and Benjamin F. Fisher, Garland, 1996, pp. xi, 263 pp.

Fisken, Beth Wynne.  "The 'Faces of Children That Had Never Been': Ghost Stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman." Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women, edited by Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar, U of Tennessee P, 1991, pp. x, 266 pp.

Fisken, Beth Wynne. "'Unusual' People in a 'Usual Place': 'The Balking of Christopher' by Mary Wilkins Freeman." Colby Library Quarterly 21.2 (1985): 99-103.

Fisken, Beth Wynne. "'Unusual' People in a 'Usual Place': 'The Balking of Christopher' by Mary Wilkins Freeman." Colby Library Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, 1985, pp. 99-103.

Foster, Edward. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Hendricks House, 1956.

Gardner, Kate. "The Subversion of Genre in the Short Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, vol. 65, no. 3, 1992, pp. 447-468.

Gentile, Kathy Justice. "Supernatural Transmissions: Turn-of-the-Century Ghosts in American Women's Fiction: Jewett, Freeman, Wharton, and Gilman." Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions. Eds. Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller. Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Atwl) Number: 79: Modern Language Association of America, New York, NY, 2003. xiv, 310.

Getz, John. "Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sherwood Anderson: Confluence or Influence." Midamerica: The Yearbook of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, vol. 19, 1992, pp. 74-86.

Glasser, Leah Blatt.  "'She Is the One You Call Sister': Discovering Mary Wilkins Freeman." Between Women: Biographers, Novelists, Critics, Teachers, and Artists Write About Their Work on Women, edited by Carol Ascher et al., Beacon, 1984, pp. xxv, 469 pp.

Glasser, Leah Blatt.  "Legacy Profile: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 4, no. 1, 1987, pp. 37-45, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25678984.

Glasser, Leah Blatt.  "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: The Stranger in the Mirror." Massachusetts Review: A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts and Public Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2, 1984, pp. 323-339, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25089555?origin=pubexport.

Glasser, Leah Blatt. In a Closet Hidden: The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. U of Massachusetts P, 1996.

Grasso, Linda M. "Inventive Desperation: Anger, Violence, and Belonging in Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Sui Sin Far's Murderous Mother Stories." American Literary Realism, vol. 38, no. 1, 2005, pp. 18-31, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747180.

Grasso, Linda. "'Thwarted Life, Mighty Hunger, Unfinished Work': The Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women Writing in America." American Transcendental Quarterly 8.2 (1994): 97-118.

Hamblen, Abigail Ann. The New England Art of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Green Knight, 1966.

Hardiman, Faye Wright. Mary Wilkins Freeman's Men: Finding Masculinity in a Women's World. 1997.

Harris, Susan K. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'a New England Nun' and the Dilemma of the Woman Artist." Studies in American Humor 3.9 (2002): 27-38.

Holly, Carol. "Reading Resistance in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'a Poetess'." American Literary Realism, vol. 39, no. 2, 2007, pp. 95-108, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747241.

Howard, June. Publishing the Family. Duke UP Durham, NC, 2001.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman): Two Shrewd Businesswomen in Search of New Markets." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, vol. 70, no. 1, 1997, pp. 57-82.

Johanningsmeier, Charles. "The current state of Freeman bibliographical and textual studies."American Transcendental Quarterly 14.2 (Jun 2000): 173-197.

Johns, Barbara A. "'Love-Cracked': Spinsters as Subversives in 'Anna Malann,' 'Christmas Jenny,' and 'An Object of Love'." Colby Library Quarterly 23.1 (1987): 4-15.

Johnsen, Norma. "Pieces: Artist and Audience in Three Mary Wilkins Freeman Stories." Colby Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1, 1993, pp. 43-56.

Kendrick, Brent L. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, vol. 8, 1975, pp. 255-257, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747977.

Kendrick, Brent L. The Infant Sphinx: Collected Letters of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Scarecrow, 1985.

Kinsey, Valerie. "A Recovered Children's Christmas Story by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: 'The White Witch'." American Literary Realism, vol. 44, no. 3, 2012, pp. 267-270, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_literary_realism/v044/44.3.kinsey.html.

Klemans, Patricia A. "The Courageous Soul: Woman as Artist in American Literature." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 43.4 (1981): 39-43.

Koppelman, Susan. "About 'Two Friends' and Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism 21.1 (1988): 43-57.

Laffrado, Laura. "Ella Rhoads Higginson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Pacific Northwest Women's Literary Regionalism." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014, pp. 281-288, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v031/31.2.laffrado.html

Luscher, Robert M. "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The 'Intimate Connection' of Mary Wilkins Freeman's Six Trees." American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 3, no. 4, 1989, pp. 363-381.

Maik, Thomas A. "Dissent and Affirmation: Conflicting Voices of Female Roles in Selected Stories by Mary Wilkins Freeman." Colby Library Quarterly, vol. 26, no. 1, 1990, pp. 59-68.

Maik, Thomas A. "Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Louisa': Liberation, Independence, or Madness?" North Dakota Quarterly 60.4 (1992): 137-48.

Maik, Thomas A. "Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Louisa': Liberation, Independence, or Madness?" North Dakota Quarterly, vol. 60, no. 4, 1992, pp. 137-148.

Mann, Susan Garland. "A House of One's Own: The Subversion of 'True Womanhood' in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction." Colby Quarterly 34.1 (1998): 39-54.

Mann, Susan Garland. "Gardening as 'Women's Culture' in Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's Short Fiction." New England Quarterly 71.1 (1998): 33-53.

Marchalonis, Shirley. "Another Mary Wilkins Freeman: Understudies and Six Trees." American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 2, 1995, pp. 89-101.

Marchalonis, Shirley. "The Sharp-Edged Humor of Mary Wilkins Freeman: The Jamesons-and Other Stories." Critical Essays on American Literature (Ceal), edited by Shirley ed Marchalonis, G. K. Hall, 1991, pp. xi, 241 pp.

Mayer, Sylvia. Naturethik Und Neuengland-Regionalliteratur: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rose Terry Cooke, Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Universitatsverlag Winter, 2004. American Studies: A Monograph Series (Amstudies).

McElrath, Joseph R., Jr. "The Artistry of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The Revolt'."  American Literary Realism (1980): 255-61.

Meese, Elizabeth. Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1986.

Monteiro, George. "Addenda to Foster's Freeman." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, vol. 69, 1975, p. 407.

Monteiro, George. "The 'Ordinary' Poetry of Mary E. Wilkins and Emily Dickinson." American Literary Realism 33.3 (2001): 252-..

Morey, Ann-Janine. "American Myth and Biblical Interpretation in the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Journal of the American Academy of Religion, vol. 55, no. 4, 1987, pp. 741-763.

Newlin, Keith. "Unwitting Provocateur: Mary Wilkins Freeman and the American Academy of Arts and Letters." Resources for American Literary Study, vol. 32, 2007, pp. 141-161.

Oaks, Susan. "The Haunting Will: The Ghost Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Colby Library Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 4, 1985, pp. 208-220.

Orr, Elaine. "Reading Negotiation and Negotiated Reading: A Practice with/in 'A White Heron' and 'The Revolt of 'Mother"." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 53.3 (1991): 49-65.

Palmer, Stephanie C. "'No More Appreciative Readers Than in England': Anglo-Saxonism and Dissent in the English Craze for Mary Wilkins Freeman." Symbiosis: A Journal of Anglo-American Literary Relations, vol. 16, no. 2, 2012, pp. 225-244.

Patrick, Barbara. "Lady Terrorists: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and the Ghost Story." American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Julie Brown. New York: Garland, 1995. 73-84.

Pennell, Melissa McFarland. "The Liberating Will: Freedom of Choice in the Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman.". Critical Essays on American Literature (CEAL)., 1991. 207-21.

Petry, Alice Hall. "Freeman's New England Elegy." Studies in Short Fiction 21.1 (1984): 68-70.

Pryse, Marjorie "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852-1930." Modern American Women Writers, edited by Elaine Showalter et al., Scribner's, 1991, pp. xxii, 583 pp.

Pryse, Marjorie. "Afterword." Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, edited by Marjorie Pryse, Norton, 1983, pp. xix, 344 pp.

Pryse, Marjorie. "An Uncloistered 'New England Nun'." Studies in Short Fiction 20.4 (1983): 289-295.

Pryse, Marjorie. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, 1852-1930." Modern American Women Writers. Eds. Elaine Showalter, Lea Baechler and A. Walton Litz. New York, NY: Scribner's, 1991. 141-53.

Pryse, Marjorie. "The Humanity of Women in Freeman's 'A Village Singer'." Colby Library Quarterly 19.2 (1983): 69-77.

Pryse, Marjorie. Selected Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. Norton, 1983.

Quina, James H. "Character Types in the Fiction of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Colby Library Quarterly, vol. 9, 1971, pp. 432-439.

Reichardt, Mary R.  A Web of Relationship: Women in the Short Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman. 1988.

Reichardt, Mary R. -. Mary Wilkins Freeman: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne, 1997.

Reichardt, Mary R. "Mary Wilkins Freeman: One Hundred Years of Criticism." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 4, no. 2, 1987, pp. 31-44.

Reichardt, Mary R. "The Web of Self-Strangulation; Mothers, Daughters and the Question of Marriage in the Short Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." Joinings and Disjoinings: The Significance of Marital Status in Literature. Eds. JoAnna Stephens Mink and Janet Doubler Ward. Bowling Green, OH: Popular, 1991. 109-19.

Reichardt, Mary R. A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 1997.

Reichardt, Mary R.. "'Friend of My Heart': Women as Friends and Rivals in the Short Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman." American Literary Realism, vol. 22, no. 2, 1990, pp. 54-68, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27746394.

Reichardt, Mary R.. A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader. U of Nebraska P, 1997.

Robillard, Douglas. "Mary Wilkins Freeman." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, 2: A. Ed. Everett Franklin Bleiler. E. Coppard to Roger Zelazny. New York: Scribner's, 1985. 769-773.

Romines, Ann. "A Place for 'A Poetess'." Markham Review 12 (1983): 61-64.

Romines, Ann. The Home Plot: Women, Writing & Domestic Ritual. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1992.

Ryden, Kent C. Sum of the Parts: The Mathematics and Politics of Region, Place, and Writing. U of Iowa P, 2011.

Sanner, Kristin. "'A Man Makin' Pies out of Sorrel!!': Exploring Issues of Gender and Family in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Pembroke." You Are What You Eat: Literary Probes into the Palate, edited by Annette M. Magid, Cambridge Scholars, 2008, pp. xiv, 464 pp.

Scheick, William J. "The Shadow Narrative in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Silence'." American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1999, pp. 233-245.

Scofield, Martin. "The Cambridge Introduction to the American Short Story."2006. New York.

Shaw, S. Bradley. "New England Gothic by the Light of Common Day: Lizzie Borden and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 'The Long Arm'." New England Quarterly 70.2 (1997): 211-36.

Sherman, Sarah W. "The Great Goddess in New England: Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Christmas Jenny'." Studies in Short Fiction, vol. 17, 1980, pp. 157-164.

Thomas, Heather Kirk. "'It's Your Father's Way: The Father-Daughter Narrative and Female Development in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Pembroke." Studies in the Novel, vol. 29, no. 1, 1997, pp. 26-39, http://www.jstor.org/stable/29533183.

Tigchelaar, Jana. "The Neighborly Christmas: Gifts, Community, and Regionalism in the Christmas Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, vol. 31, no. 2, 2014, pp. 236-257, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/legacy/v031/31.2.tigchelaar.html

Toth, Susan Allen. "'The Rarest and Most Peculiar Grape': Versions of the New England Woman in Nineteenth-Century Local Color Literature." Regionalism and the Female Imagination: A Collection of Essays. Ed. Emily Toth. New York: Human Sciences, 1985. 15-28.

Toth, Susan Allen. "Defiant Light: A Positive View of Mary Wilkins Freeman." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters, vol. 46, no. 1, 1973, pp. 82-93.

Toth, Susan Allen. "Mary Wilkins Freeman's Parable of Wasted Life." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 42, no. 4, 1971, pp. 564-567.

Turkes, Doris J. "Must Age Equal Failure?: Sociology Looks at Mary Wilkins Freeman's Old Women." American Transcendental Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, 1999, pp. 197-214.

Urgo, Joseph. "Capitalism, Nationalism, and the American Short Story." Studies in Short Fiction 35.4 (1998): 339-53.

Voller, Jack G. "Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)." Gothic Writers: A Critical and Bibliographical Guide. Eds. Douglass H. Thomson, Jack G. Voller and Frederick S. Frank: Greenwood, Westport, CT, 2002. xxv, 516.

Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew. Scare Tactics: Supernatural Fiction by American Women. Fordham UP, 2008.

Westbrook, Perry D.  "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb), edited by Bobby Ellen Kimbel and William E. Grant, Thomson Gale, 1989, pp. xvii, 337 pp.

Westbrook, Perry D.  Mary Wilkins Freeman. Twayne, 1988.

Westbrook, Perry D. "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)." American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, vol. 2, 1969, pp. 139-142, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27747644.

Westbrook, Perry D. "Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)." Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio- Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. Knight and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 139-49.

Westbrook, Perry D. Mary Wilkins Freeman. Twayne, 1967.

Wilson, James D. "The 'Fairy Web' and the Raft: Domesticity and Nature in 'A New England Nun' and Huckleberry Finn."