Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

 

.	American Literature Sites Project Muse: Journals  Foley Library Catalog  List of Primary Texts Selected Secondary Bibliography on M.E.W. Freeman Photographs and Other Resources Brief biography of "ghost story and feminist writer" Freeman at writetools.com. Radio play (RealAudio version) and information about Freeman's story "Louisa" from the Scribbling Women site. Photo of Freeman from the Legacy American Women Writers Page Photo of Freeman receiving the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters at the Hamlin Garland Society site. Photo of Freeman at Mark Twain's 70th birthday dinner in 1905. For other links to American women writers and information on women and modernism,  see Kristen Mappel-Bloomberg's American Women Writers page. Teaching Strategies from Freeman biographer and critic Leah Blatt Glasser Photo Credits: Top: Image courtesy of the Legacy site.  Photograph reproduced from In a Closet Hidden:  The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman by  Leah Blatt Glasser (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996). Original from the Mary Wilkins  Freeman Collection, Special Collections Department, Clifton Waller Barrett Library, University of Virginia
Works Available Online "A New England Nun and Other Stories (Note: Other stories from A New England Nun and Other Stories will be posted to this site eventually. The list of stories below follows the table of contents in the 1891 edition from which these stories are copied. )   "A New England Nun" ..........1 "A Village Singer"...............18 "A Gala Dress"....................37 "The Twelfth Guest"..............54 "Sister Liddy"......................81 "Calla-Lilies and Hannah".....99 "A Wayfaring Couple".........121 "A Poetess" ......................140 Link to magazine version, Harper's Monthly 1890 "Christmas Jenny"..............160 "A Pot of Gold"..................178 "The Scent of the Roses"...198 "A Solitary"........................215 "A Gentle Ghost"..................234 "A Discovered Pearl"............253 "A Village Lear"....................268 "Amanda and Love"..............288 "Up Primrose Hill".................305 "A Stolen Christmas"............321 "Life Everlastin'"...................338 "An Innocent Gamester"........363 "Louisa"...............................384 "A Church Mouse"................407 "A Kitchen Colonel"..............427 "The Revolt of 'Mother'"........448 Harper's Monthly, September 1890 The following links are from Jeff Kaylin's collection of  Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's stories.  The Pot of Gold 1892 The Pot of Gold 18KB The Cow With Golden Horns 19KB Princess Rosetta and the Pop-corn Man 29KB The Christmas Monks 27KB The Pumpkin Giant 19KB The Christmas Masquerade 22KB Dill 16KB The Silver Hen 24KB Toby 20KB The Patchwork School 20KB The Squire's Sixpence 20KB A Plain Case 27KB A Stranger in the Village 14KB The Bound Girl 25KB Deacon Thomas Wales's Will 20KB The Adopted Daughter 23KB Young Lucretia and Other Stories 1892 Young Lucretia 22KB How Fidelia Went to the Store 21KB Ann Mary; Her Two Thanksgivings 31KB Ann Lizy's Patchwork 24KB The Little Persian Princess 24KB Where the Christmas-Tree Grew 18KB Where Sarah Jane's Doll Went 16KB Seventoe's Ghost 16KB Little Mirandy, and How She Earned Her Shoes 22KB A Parsnip Stew 19KB The Dickey Boy 25KB A Sweet-Grass Basket 22KB Mehitable Lamb 25KB People of Our Neighborhood 1898 Timothy Samson: The Wise Man 13KB Little Margaret Snell: The Village Runaway 10KB Cyrus Emmett: The Unlucky Man 11KB Phebe Ann Little: The Neat Woman 9KB Amanda Todd: The Friend of Cats 12KB Lydia Wheelock: The Good Woman 13KB A Quilting Bee in Our Village 16KB The Stockwells' Apple-Paring Bee 16KB The Christmas Sing in Our Village 11KB Understudies 1901 The Cat 17KB The Monkey 20KB The Squirrel 14KB The Lost Dog 14KB The Parrot 19KB The Doctor's Horse 15KB Bouncing Bet 24KB Prince's-Feather 24KB Arethusa 26KB Mountain-Laurel 20KB Peony 24KB Morning-Glory 16KB The Givers and other stories 1902 The Givers 50KB The Revolt of Sophia Lucy 43KB Eglantina 27KB Joy 26KB The Reign of the Doll 37KB The Chance of Araminta 39KB The Butterfly 39KB The Last Gift 34KB Six Trees 1903 The Elm-Tree 29KB The White Birch 17KB The Great Pine 23KB The Balsam Fir 19KB The Lombardy Poplar 28KB The Apple-Tree 27KB The Winning Lady and Others 1909 The Winning Lady 34KB Little-Girl-Afraid-of-a-Dog 40KB The Joy of Youth 34KB Billy and Susy 22KB The Selfishness of Amelia Lamkin 54KB The Travelling Sister Her Christmas Old Woman Magoun 39KB Eliza Sam Flora and Hannah A New-Year's Resolution   The Yates Pride, a Romance (Project Gutenberg )Updated link Illustrated HTML at Virginia  The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century  (1900) Copy-Cat and Other Stories (Text from Project Gutenberg) Updated link Illustrated HTML at Virginia Story 1 THE COPY-CAT  Story 2 THE COCK OF THE WALK  Story 3 JOHNNY-IN-THE-WOODS  Story 4 DANIEL AND LITTLE DAN'L  Story 5 BIG SISTER SOLLY  Story 6 LITTLE LUCY ROSE  Story 7 NOBLESSE  Story 8 CORONATION  Story 9 THE AMETHYST COMB  Story 10 THE UMBRELLA MAN  Story 11 THE BALKING OF CHRISTOPHER  Story 12 DEAR ANNIE  The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903). The six stories (illustrated HTML) in this collection are now available from Jack Voller's "Literary Gothic" Website:  "The Wind in the Rosebush" "The Shadows on the Wall" "Luella Miller" "The Southwest Chamber" "The Vacant Lot" "The Lost Ghost" (first published in Everybody's Magazine, May 1903) Other texts from this site: "A Symphony in Lavender" (1883)  "The Hall Bedroom" (1905) "A Gentle Ghost"  (1889) A Gentle Ghost "The Twelfth Guest"  "A Far-Away Melody"  "The Little Maid at the Door" Cat.1900 . Illustrations. (U.Virginia) "The Revolt of Sophia Lane" December 1903 "The Last Gift" 1903 Humble Pie 1904 . Emancipation December 1915 (U.Virginia) "A Guest in Sodom"1912 "Criss-cross"1914 Works (Pages Images from Cornell's Making of America Site) After the Rain Boy's Love The Buckley Lady. A Story A Conflict Ended  Emmy Evelina's Garden. A Story  A Gatherer of Simples  Giles Corey, Yeoman. A Play  Her Bonnet  An Honest Soul  A Humble Romance It was a Lass  Jane Field. A Novel. Jane Field. A Novel. Jane Field. A Novel. Jane Field. A Novel.  Jane Field. A Novel. Jane Field. A Novel. Jane Field. A Novel. Part 1  The Little Maid At The Door. A Story  Love and the Witches  Love in the Willow A Maiden Lady  A New England Prophet. A Story Now Is The Cherry In Blossom (poem) An Old Arithmetician Pastels in Prose: In the Marsh-Land, Camilla's Snuff-Box, Shadows, Death  Silence. A Story A Souvenir Sweet Phyllis The Three Old Sisters and the Old Beau. A Story  The Twelfth Guest. A Story The Whist-Players Return to Howells Society Main Page (frames)     (no frames) Comments to D. Campbell