![]() She wrote stories about characters in New England with her friend Evelyn Sawyer. She read Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Leo Tolstoy, along with female writers such as Sarah Orne Jewett and Harriet Beecher Stowe. ![]() She and her family moved back to Randolph in 1873 when her father’s business failed.Īs a child, Freeman read fairytales and continued her love of literature into adulthood. There, Freeman graduated from Brattleboro High School and attended Mount Holyoke Seminary for one year and continued her education at Mrs. She and her family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont in 1867. She was raised in a Congregational family with ancestors dating to 1645 in New England. Wilkins Freeman was one of two children to survive to adulthood out of four siblings. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) was an American poet and author.īorn on October 31, 1852, in Randolph, Massachusetts, Mary E. ![]() WPA Writers Project photograph collection, NJ State Archives, Department of State ![]()
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