Jane Field [Hardcover]

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 20, 2005

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 and Letters

Product Details

• Hardcover: 124 pages
• Publisher: Wildside Press (December 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1557425140
• ISBN-13: 978-1557425140
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,407,576 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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