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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose Bush written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 6 stories in this collection add a new dimension to the fictional portrayal of New England life. The author's apparently simple, declarative prose moves the reader convincingly into a world where ghosts dwell and evil is real. These stories contain buried comments on the life of women at the turn of the century. By the author of Pembroke.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush written by M.E. Wilkins Freeman and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wind in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by : Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Download or read book The Wind in the Rose Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-05-04 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Wind in the Rose bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural" from Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. Prominent 19th-century American author (1852-1930).
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural. by written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her as "Mary Ella." Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood.Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. In 1867, the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870-71. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. When the family's dry goods business in Vermont failed in 1873, the family returned to Randolph, Massachusetts. Freeman's mother died three years later, and she changed her middle name to "Eleanor" in her memory.[3] Freeman's father died suddenly in 1883, leaving her without any immediate family and an estate worth only $973. She moved in with a friend and began writing as her only source of income.[ During a visit to Metuchen, New Jersey in 1892, she met Dr. Charles Manning Freeman, a non-practicing medical doctor seven years younger than she. After years of courtship and delays, the two were married on January 1, 1902. Immediately after, she firmly established her name as "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman," which she asked Harper's to use on all of her work.[4] The couple built a home in Metuchen, where Freeman was known as a local celebrity for her writing, despite having occasionally published satirical fictional representations of her neighbors
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Download or read book Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - the Wind in the Rose Bush written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31st, 1852. Her parents, Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, originally baptized her "Mary Ella." They were orthodox Congregationalists and brought Mary up very strictly, a theme which Mary used in her works throughout her career. The family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, in 1867, from where Mary graduated from the local high school before continuing her education at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for the year 1870-71. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. The family went through straitened times in 1873 when their dry-goods store closed down and the family returned to Randolph. Mary's mother died in 1876 and in her memory Mary added 'Eleanor' to her name. She had begun writing verse and stories for children whilst still a teenager and these early submissions proved successful. Her first short story to be published was 'The Ghost Story' in 1881 after it won a short story competition. By interlacing elements of the supernatural with domestic realism she had hit upon a solid formula for success. Mary's father died in 1883, leaving her with no immediate family and a small estate worth less than a thousand dollars. This was the pivotal moment when Mary, in need of an income, decided her writing skills would give her the best opportunity. Indeed her best work was to flow from her pen over the next decade whilst she still lived in Randolph. In her career she published more than two dozen volumes of short stories and novels. She is best known for two collections; A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories are mostly set in New England life. Mary is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1892 she met Dr. Charles Manning Freeman, seven years her junior whilst she was on a visit to Metuchen in New Jersey. The courtship was slow and endured many obstacles and delays until they eventually married on New Years Day, 1902. She was now "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman." The couple built a home in Metuchen, where Mary became something of a local celebrity. Sadly her husband suffered from alcoholism and an addiction to sleeping powders as well as an easily gained reputation for fast horses and womanizing. He was committed to the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane in Trenton and with that the couple separated. After his death in 1923, he left what wealth he had to his chauffeur and one dollar to Mary. In her life and writing Mary wanted to demonstrate her values as a feminist. Her female characters were strong and self-willed. She used them to challenge contemporary stereotypes over their roles, values, and relationships in society. Her short story 'The Revolt of Mother' illuminated the struggles of rural women and their lack of rights and was the first of many of her stories to engage an audience to discuss the lack of control rural woman had over their families finances. In April 1926, Mary became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. On March 13th, 1930, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman suffered a fatal heart attack in Metuchen. She was 77. She was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-03 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wind in the Rose-Bush By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels.Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose Bush written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Luella Miller The Southwest Chamber The Vacant Lot The Lost Ghost Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary Wilkins Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman gained acclaim in her time as a chronicler of life in rural New England. ...
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush written by Mary Wilkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. She was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her as "Mary Ella." Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. Contents The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Luella Miller The Southwest Chamber The Vacant Lot The Lost Ghost
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Download or read book Luella Miller written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luella Miller By Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush written by Mary Eleanor Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wonderfully artistic and enthralling tales of the supernatural." -Vanity Fair "Mary E. Wilkins has produced some really astonishing results in the way of mysteries in the book of short stories which she calls 'The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Tales of the Supernatural.' Without the use of the element of horror that characterizes Bulwer-Lytton's 'The House and the Brain' or the word of Poe in the same field, relying rather upon terror, so different a sentiment, she constructs out of the ordinary, commonplace, everyday life of New England a number of episodes that will send the most hardened to bed with an uneasy glance behind. It is inevitably crime, or something closely akin to crime, that lies behind her various weirdnesses; but she has the wise economy of narration which refuses to disclose most of these deeds of shame, and her work may fairly be called engrossing." -The Dial "When opening a book by Miss Wilkins, the last thing the reader expects is that she will 'freeze his young blood,' or 'make his two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres,' but this is just what will happen to him during the perusal of 'The Wind in the Rose Bush.' There is something horrifying about the ghosts which belong to a new country and new houses They are too recent. The ghost which lived three hundred years ago is a piece of picturesque 'property' enriching the scene of an old and historic house. But to find among us the modern spirit, already returned from the bourn to which he only traveled some time last year, is not to be borne. Miss Wilkins's ghosts are all intolerable just in this way. The wind which blows about the rose-bush on a calm day, the dreadful child who brings back to their owners articles left about the house, the wicked old woman whose face is reflected in the looking-glass, replacing that of the woman who looks in, - each and all signify the return of the recently dead. Miss Wilkins writes with such calm and deliberate detail that she goes far towards convincing her readers of the truth of each story in turn; and he will be a bold man who, finishing the book late at night, will go to bed without glancing several times behind him." -The Spectator "Miss Wilkins displays a rare skill in the invention of six of the most attractively repellent ghost stories we ever read. These tales, however, have in them nothing that is commonplace or vulgar, unless it be right so to designate some of the honest, kindly folk who serve as foils to the fearful phantoms and still more dreadful doers-of-evil figuring in the book. From each of these tales may be learnt a moral lesson calculated to have all the more lasting effect, because, the tale having once been read, it is impossible to forget the horror of it." -The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record "There is a certain matter-of-fact realism in these ghost stories that gives one the desired shock of horror when it is least expected. The stage is not darkened, apparently no preparations have been made for a drama of the supernatural, when suddenly the most commonplace object or event betrays shamelessly somebody's trust in the sanity of common life. A mysterious odor of cabbage becomes a warning, bed-hangings change their pattern unwarrantably, a bush shakes when the wind is still, and immediately the spirits have their way with you." -The Unitarian Register Contents The Wind in the Rose-bush The Shadows on the Wall Luella Miller The Southwest Chamber The Vacant Lot The Lost Ghost
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Download or read book Collected Ghost Stories written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and published by Arkham House Publishers. This book was released on 1974 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural. by written by Mary E. Wilkins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her "Mary Ella." Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. In 1867, the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending, Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870-71. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. When the family's dry goods business in Vermont failed in 1873, the family returned to Randolph, Massachusetts. Freeman's mother died three years later, and she changed her middle name to "Eleanor" in her memory. Freeman's father died suddenly in 1883, leaving her without any immediate family and an estate worth only $973. She moved in with a friend and began writing as her only source of income.During a visit to Metuchen, New Jersey in 1892, she met Dr. Charles Manning Freeman, a non-practicing medical doctor seven years younger than she. After years of courtship and delays, the two were married on January 1, 1902. Immediately after, she firmly established her name as "Mary E. Wilkins Freeman," which she asked Harper's to use on all of her work. The couple built a home in Metuchen, where Freeman became a local celebrity for her writing, despite having occasionally published satirical fictional representations of her neighbors. Her husband suffered from alcoholism and an addiction to sleeping powders. He also had a reputation for driving fast horses, and womanizing.
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Download or read book The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural written by Mary E Wilkins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Wilkins may know her own New England no more intimately now than when she first so successfully celebrated it. But it is plain that she has crown to look upon it a little differently; more tenderly, - almost, as it were, more maternally; and though her comedy was always of the kind that is near to pathos, she seems now more than ever to smile through tears of sympathy at her own most delicious creations. Such, at least, is the impression produced by her latest book, which contain six remarkable short stories. Inevitably, this book stimulates the wish that Miss Wilkins, who is a good novelist, but a great writer of short stories, should continue to practise the latter art to the end of her days. For the present, this unpretending volume may well be a matter of national pride; we have surely nothing more individual, nothing we could exhibit with fewer reservations. If Mr. Peter Newell, whose unquestioned talents are of distinctly another order, had not been permitted to illustrate it, "The Wind in the Rose-Bush" would be a volume to cherish. The title story is a masterpiece of insight, significance, controlled imagination. Although, like the remaining five stories in the book, it is a ghost story, it seems almost to vulgarize it to call it so, with such masterly plausibility is the ghostly related to the human. Miss Wilkins has never been one to make use of hackneyed tools; yet a striking feature of these tales of the supernatural is the complete avoidance of the conventional vocabulary of horror. Miss Wilkins's ghosts do not require a dark and musty milieu; and by the unexpectedness of their introduction into familiar, sun-light, domestic scenes, she secures an intensity of effect that the well-worn machinery of ghost-literature could never compass. Nor would any less unconventional writer than Miss Wilkins have bethought himself to assign such fitting individualities to these by no means passive apparitions; or to replace the sinister criminal of tradition with such bland and cheerful substitutes as figure in "The Shadows on the Wall" and "The Wind in the Rose-Bush." Nothing could be more uncannily appropriate than that the ghost of malicious Aunt Harriet, who haunted the "south-west chamber," should have been given to petty, teasing tricks, like snatching bodices and brooches. It is the pastime of the little "lost ghost," overworked during its baby lifetime, to glide pathetically about the house in search of clothes to put away or dishes to wash. -The Critic, Volume 43 [1903]
