6/3/2023 0 Comments The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Mary E. Wilkins FreemanFreeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894) and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. Her career as a short story writer launched in 1881 when she took first place in a short story contest with her submission "The Ghost Family." When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.
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