Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Mary Eleanor Wilkins was born in 1852 in Randolph, Massachusetts, into an orthodox Congregationalist family. She studied for a year at Mount Holyoke Seminary. She lost her sister, her mother and then, in 1883, her father: almost penniless, she lived by her pen and would publish more than twenty volumes. Married at forty-nine to a physician from New Jersey, an alcoholic, she separated from him after his confinement. The first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal, elected in 1926 to the National Institute of Arts and Letters, she died in Metuchen in 1930.

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• Short storiesA New England Nun and Other StoriesMary E. Wilkins Freeman · 1891LiteraturePublic domain