author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
1852–1930
Best known for vivid stories of New England village life, this American writer brought quiet struggles, strong-willed women, and eerie undercurrents to the page. Her work ranges from realism to memorable ghost stories, with "Pembroke" and "A New England Nun" among the pieces still widely read.
26 Audiobooks
The Pot of Gold, and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
Giles Corey, Yeoman: A Play
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Portion of Labor
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Yates Pride: A Romance
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Young Lucretia and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Pembroke: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
An Alabaster Box
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Florence Morse Kingsley
By the Light of the Soul: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Jamesons
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Madelon: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Comfort Pease and her Gold Ring
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Green Door
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Jane Field: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
'Doc.' Gordon
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Debtor: A Novel
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Evelina's Garden
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Adventures of Ann: Stories of Colonial Times
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Once Upon a Time, and Other Child-Verses
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
The Butterfly House
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Silence, and other stories
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
About the author
Born in Randolph, Massachusetts, in 1852, she grew up in New England and later lived for a time in Brattleboro, Vermont. Sources consistently describe her as an American writer whose fiction focused on the inner lives and social pressures of small-town New England, often with special attention to women whose choices were limited by custom and duty.
She became especially known for short stories and novels such as A New England Nun and Pembroke. Her writing is often linked with American regionalism and realism, but she also wrote ghost stories that have remained popular in anthologies, showing how easily she could move from close observation of ordinary life to the strange and unsettling.
Later in life she was recognized as a major literary figure, and her work continues to be read for its sharp portraits of community life, restraint, loneliness, and independence. She died in 1930.