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MARY ELEANOR WILKINS (1862– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . 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 . 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 . See also:Freeman of Metuchen, New See also:Jersey . 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 and other See also:Child Verses (1897) . 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 (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 . 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 . 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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