See also:MARY ELEANOR See also:WILKINS (1862– )
, See also:American novelist, was See also:born in See also:Randolph, See also:Massachusetts, on the 7th of See also:January 1862, of Puritan ancestry
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Her See also:early See also:education, chiefly from See also:reading and observation, was supplemented by a course at See also:Mount See also:Holyoke See also:Seminary, See also:South See also:Hadley, See also:Mass
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Her See also:home was in her native See also:village and in See also:Brattleboro, See also:Vermont, until her See also:marriage in 1902 to Dr See also:Charles M
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See also:Freeman of Metuchen, New See also:Jersey
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She contributed poems and stories to See also:children's magazines, and published several books for children, including See also:Young See also:Lucretia and other Stories (1892), The Pot of See also:Gold and other Stories (1892), and Once upon a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
Time and other See also:Child Verses (1897)
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For older readers she wrote the following volumes of See also:short stories: A Humble See also:Romance and other Stories (1887), A New See also:England See also:Nun and other Stories (1891), Silence and other Stories (1898), three books which gave her a prominent See also:place among American short-See also:story writers; The See also:People of Our Neighborhood (1898), The Love of See also:Parson See also:Lord and other Stories (1900), Understudies (19o1) and The Givers (1904); the novels Jane See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field (1892), See also:Pembroke (1894), Madelon (1896), See also:Jerome, a Poor See also:Man (1897), The Jamesons (1899), The Portion of Labor (1901) and The Debtor (1905); and See also:Giles Corey, See also:Yeoman (1893), a See also:prose tragedy founded on incidents from New England See also:history
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Her longer novels, though successful in the portrayal of See also:character, lack something of the unity, suggestiveness and See also:charm of her short stories, which are notable contributions to See also:modern American literature
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She deals usually with a few traits See also:peculiar to the village and See also:country See also:life of New England, and she gave See also:literary permanence to certain characteristics of New England life which are fast disappearing
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