Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was an American author. She is best known for her novel Pembroke, and also wrote a number of well-regarded ghost stories, which are still frequently anthologized.
Freeman in 1899
Image of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman scanned from frontispiece of her novel Jane Field, published in 1892.
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, 1900.
Mary E. Wilkins, from the inside cover of The people of our neighborhood (1898)
The Whole Family
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The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors is a collaborative novel told in twelve chapters, each by a different author. This unusual project was conceived by novelist William Dean Howells and carrie
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
…New England life. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel entitled The Whole Family (1908). Through her different genres of work including children's stories, poems, and short stories, Mary Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate her…
First edition
William Dean Howells thought of the collaborative project in the spring of 1906.
Mary Wilkins Freeman's chapter on the "Old Maid Aunt" was controversial among her collaborators.
First page of the first chapter of The Whole Family as it appeared in Harper's Bazar, December 1907