"Doc." Gordon

by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

Overview

Reproduction of the original: "Doc." Gordon by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783752308860
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	07/19/2020
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman(October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. She was born inRandolph, Massachusetts, and attendedMount Holyoke College(then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) inSouth Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870-71. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood.[1]Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts andVermont. Freeman began writing stories andversefor children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. While working as secretary to the author and physician,Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., she began writing poetry and novels with a strong New England regional flavor. 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. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of publishedshort storiesand novels. She is best known for two collections of stories,A Humble Romance and Other Stories(1887) andA New England Nunand Other Stories(1891). Her stories deal mostly withNew Englandlife and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novelPembroke(1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to thecollaborative novelThe Whole Family(1908). In 1902 she married Dr. Charles M. Freeman ofMetuchen, New Jersey. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of theWilliam Dean HowellsMedal for Distinction in Fiction from theAmerican Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred inHillside CemeteryinScotch Plains, New Jersey.