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Genre/Form: | Biography collective biographies Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Glasser, Leah Blatt, 1951- In a closet hidden. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©1996 (OCoLC)604076545 |
Named Person: | Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman; Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman; Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Leah Blatt Glasser; Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. |
ISBN: | 1558490272 9781558490277 1558490280 9781558490284 |
OCLC Number: | 33664386 |
Description: | xx, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | "Nurtured in repression" -- "The art of my work" -- "Sometimes I think I am a monster" -- Sexual politics in Pembroke -- "Savage squaw" and "Fair angel" in Madelon -- "The tenderness of one woman for another" -- "If you don't see the old me" -- Freeman and two New England contemporaries [Sarah Orne Jewett and Charlotte Perkins Gilman]. |
Responsibility: | Leah Blatt Glasser. |
Abstract:
This work explores the multiple tensions at the core of American writer Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's life and work. The book traces Freeman's evolution as a writer, showing how her work offers a feminist analysis of the lives of 19th-century American women.
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