In a closet hidden : the life and work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman /
"The first literary biography of a much-neglected American writer, this book explores the multiple tensions at the core of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's life and work. A prolific short story writer and novelist, Freeman (1852-1930) developed a reputation as a local colorist who depicted the pe...
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©1996.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2w9n29n |
Table of Contents:
- "Nurtured in repression"
- "The art of my work"
- "Sometimes I think I am a monster"
- Sexual politics in Pembroke
- "Savage squaw" and "Fair angel" in Madelon
- "The tenderness of one woman for another"
- "If you don't see the old me"
- Freeman and two New England contemporaries [Sarah Orne Jewett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman].