Mary wilkins freeman biography
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ()
Contributing Editor: Leah Blatt Glasser
Classroom Issues and Strategies
The best strategy in approaching Mary Wilkins Freeman's work is to provide a full context for both her life and period and to select particularly paradoxical passages for class discussion. It is especially enlightening to discuss the endings of her stories, which often disappoint students or trouble them. Have students consider possible revisions of these endings and then discuss why Freeman might have chosen to conclude as she did.
Students may wish to consider the title of "The Revolt of 'Mother' " and its implications. What is the nature of Sarah's "revolt"? Why does Freeman put "mother" in quotation marks? Students may be interested to know that Freeman's father, Warren Wilkins, gave up his plan of building the house Eleanor, Freeman's mother, had hoped for. Instead, the family moved in into the home in which Eleanor was to serve as hired houseke
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
American novelist (–)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman | |
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| Born | ()October 31, Randolph, Massachusetts |
| Died | March 13, () (aged&#;77) Metuchen, New Jersey |
| Resting place | Hillside Cemetery, Scotch Plains, New Jersey |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | A New England Nun |
| Notable awards | American Academy of Arts and Letters, |
| Spouse | Dr. Charles Manning Freeman (m) |
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, – March 13, ) was an American author.
Biography
[edit]Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, , to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her "Mary Ella".[1] Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood.[2] Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works.
In , the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending Mount Ho
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Freeman, Mary Wilkins, portrait. WPA Writers Project photograph collection, NJ State Archives, Department of State
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman () was an American poet and author.
Born on October 31, , in Randolph, Massachusetts, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman was one of two children to survive to adulthood out of kvartet siblings. She was raised in a Congregational family with förfäder dating to in New England. She and her family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont in There, Freeman graduated from Brattleboro High School and attended Mount Holyoke Seminary for one year and continued her education at Mrs. Hosford’s Glenwood Seminary. She and her family moved back to Randolph in when her father’s business failed.
As a child, Freeman read fairytales and continued her love of literature into adulthood. She read Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Leo Tolstoy, along with kvinnlig writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Harriet Beecher Stowe. She wrote stor