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[FREEMAN], MARY E. WILKINS. A New England Nun and Other Stories. New York: 1891. 1st ed. 12mo. 4, 468, [8] pp. Orig. cloth, slight scuffing, but very bright. $85.00

 

BAL 6325. Wright III, 2036. F[reeman]'s significance lies in those of her stories and novels that show New England life deglamorized. She never wrote anything one could call sordid, but her early work conveys the appalling poverty of remote New England farms and villages, the constriction of the lives there, the suffering, the meanness, and the occasional flashes of real nobility. Granville Hicks has said that 'her stories made the record of New England more nearly complete.'" --Faust, American Women Writers. With an April 1891 ownership inscription, within a month of publication.