Jane Field

by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Overview

"I ain't lookin' at you, child. I've jest come home from meetin'. I guess you've been asleep." "I haven't been asleep a minute. I heard you open the outside door." Mrs. Field's hand verged toward the letter in her pocket. Then she began untying her bonnet. Lois arose, and lighted another lamp. "Well, I guess I'll go to bed," said she. "Wait a minute," her mother returned. Lois paused inquiringly. "Never mind," her mother said, hastily. "You needn't stop. I can tell you jest as well tomorrow." "What was it?" "Nothin' of any account. Run along."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940000861394
Publisher:	B&R Samizdat Express
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	139 KB

About the Author

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852 - 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. Her career as a short story writer launched in 1881 when she took first place in a short story contest with her submission "The Ghost Family." 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. 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).