Victorian author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) is most remembered today for her ghost stories, but she was a prolific and popular author in many genres: not only the supernatural, but mystery and suspense, romance, and especially contemporary fiction were her speciality. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. For this volume, we have grouped the most famous of her supernatural stories together at the beginning, then moved on to more mainstream works. I’m certain you will find something you enjoy; her interests and subject matter were broad, and her work holds up remarkably well today. Included in this volume: THE WIND IN THE ROSE-BUSH THE SHADOWS ON THE WALL LUELLA MILLER THE SOUTHWEST CHAMBER THE VACANT LOT THE LOST GHOST A FAR-AWAY MELODY THE LITTLE MAID AT THE DOOR A SYMPHONY IN LAVENDER THE HALL BEDROOM A GENTLE GHOST THE TWELFTH GUEST THE JADE BRACELET THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER THE PRISM THE POT OF GOLD THE COW WITH GOLDEN HORNS PRINCESS ROSETTA AND THE POP-CORN MAN THE CHRISTMAS MONKS THE PUMPKIN GIANT THE CHRISTMAS MASQUERADE DILL THE SILVER HEN TOBY THE PATCHWORK SCHOOL THE SQUIRE'S SIXPENCE A PLAIN CASE THE STRANGER IN THE VILLAGE THE BOUND GIRL DEACON THOMAS WALES'S WILL THE ADOPTED DAUGHTER TWO OLD LOVERS THE BAR LIGHT-HOUSE THE STORY OF LITTLE MARY WHITLOW A MISTAKEN CHARITY ON THE WALPOLE ROAD A HUMBLE ROMANCE A MODERN DRAGON AN HONEST SOUL A MORAL EXIGENCY A TASTE OF HONEY A GATHERER OF SIMPLES BRAKES AND WHITE VI'LETS AN OBJECT OF LOVE A SOUVENIR OLD LADY PINGREE A WAYFARING COUPLE IN BUTTERFLY TIME AN OLD ARITHMETICIAN ROBINS AND HAMMERS GENTIAN A CONFLICT ENDED THE "HORSE HOUSE" DEED AN UNWILLING GUEST CINNAMON ROSES A WANDERING SAMARITAN A LOVER OF FLOWERS A PATIENT WAITER A CONQUEST OF HUMILITY If you enjoyed this Megapack, please check out the rest of the series—covering science fiction, fantasy, horror, mysteries, westerns, classic authors, and much, much more! Search on "Wildside Megapack" in your favorite ebook store to see the whole list.
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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. 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. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. 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. She is best known for two collections of stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). In 1902 she married Doctor Charles M. Freeman of Metuchen, New Jersey. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey.
