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New England writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman had a particular talent for capturing the rhythms of domestic life in her native region's small towns and villages, as well as illuminating the small domestic dramas and conflicts experienced by her characters. Those strengths are displayed prominently in the novel By the Light of the Soul, which follows young Maria Edgham as she grapples with grief and dashed expectations.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-037-6

One of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's most popular short stories, "Evelina's Garden" tells the tale of two cousins—one an elderly recluse, and one a beautiful young woman—who are drawn together by a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind garden. Young Evelina is prepared to devote her life to caring for the extraordinary oasis, but when romance intervenes, everything begins to fall apart.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-031-4

Stubborn and set in her ways, Jane Field has a somewhat antagonistic relationship with her daughter Lois, who is coming into her own and developing distinct ideas and values. When it comes to light that Lois has fallen in love, all hell breaks lose. Will Jane ever be able to salvage the mother-daughter bond?
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-023-9

Many of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's novels and short stories center around an outsider who tries to fit into the strict social mores of nineteenth-century rural New England. In Madelon, the eponymous heroine is a hot-blooded young woman who finds herself accused of a horrible crime that resulted from a case of mistaken identity.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-019-2

Fans of Sinclair Lewis' Main Street will love Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's satirical novel The Butterfly House. The story is a hilarious send-up of the preposterous posturing and one-upmanship that runs amok among the members of a women's club in early-twentieth-century New Jersey.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-039-0

Though her best-known work is in the domain of short fiction, New England writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman produced a number of novels over the course of her career, as well. In the intricately plotted tale The Debtor, the Carroll family, once part of the Southern aristocracy, has fallen on hard times. Driven by desperation, one member of the family goes to extremes to raise funds.
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ISBN: 978-1-63421-412-4

Fans of historical romance will relish this finely wrought novel from American author Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, who brings her unique skill with characterization and local color to a memorable love story that's set in the Tidewater area of Virginia during colonial times.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-027-7

In this popular novel from prominent nineteenth-century American author Mary Wilkins Freeman, heroine Sylvia finds herself on the receiving end of a large and unexpected inheritance. But soon the windfall has unexpected consequences as Sylvia delves deeper into family secrets.
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ISBN: 978-1-77667-017-8