Books by "Mary e. Wilkins Freeman"
12 books found
Young Maria Edgham's widowed father marries Ida, a beautiful but cold-blooded schoolteacher. When Maria's baby half-sister is lost aboard a train, Maria and friends journey from their New England village to New York City in search of the child. Her quest, taken with an interesting traveling companion, Wollaston Lee, leads her to an absurd and questionable marriage in this 1907 novel.
The Art of Story-writing
by Joseph Berg Esenwein, Mary Davoren Chambers, Mary Davoren Molony Chambers
1919
Insights into a rediscovered author's revealing portraits of New England women
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive season have gone largely out of print and unread. Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a collection of Freeman’s best Christmas writing, introducing these funny, poignant, provocative, and surprisingly timely holiday tales to a new generation of readers.