The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

La mayoría, por no decir todos los relatos, son predecibles, pero eso no impide disfrutar de su lectura.Įl viento en el rosal. Todos los relatos son de fantasmas, excepto ‘Luella Miller’, que trata sobre una vampiresa psíquica. Como tantos otros escritores de la época, la obra de esta autora es sobre todo costumbrista, pero también le dedicó espacio al relato sobrenatural, aunque no estaba muy bien visto. Interesante antología de relatos de la estadounidense Mary E. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, 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. Freeman is also remembered for her novel Pembroke (1894), and she contributed a notable chapter to the collaborative novel The Whole Family (1908). Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind. 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). She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels.

Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont.įreeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. 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.

The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman