Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Pryse, Marjorie - Ed.

ISBN 10: 0393017265 / ISBN 13: 9780393017267

Published by WW Norton & Co, NY, 1983

About this Item

346 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 34523

Bibliographic Details

Title: Stories of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, NY

Publication Date: 1983

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Frontis Photo

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: First Printing Stated.

About this title

Synopsis:

Stories depict the lives of women in late nineteenth-century New England, as sisters, friends, wives and individuals.

About the Author:

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and at fifteen moved with her family to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1884, left without any immediate family, she returned to Randolph, where she lived for almost twenty years with her childhood friend Mary Wales. She began to write seriously in the 1970s, & in the early 1880s her work began to appear in such popular magazines as Harper's Bazar and Harper's Monthly Magazine. At forty-nine Mary E. Wilkins married Charles Manning Freeman, a New Jersey physician, and moved to Metuchen. Thereafter she wrote under the name Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. In April 1926, she received the William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; later that year she was among the 1st women to be elected to membership in the Natl. Inst. of Art & Letters. Marjorie Pryse teaches American literature and women's studies at the State University of New York.