The Infant Sphinx: Collected Letters of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810817756 ISBN 13: 9780810817753

Publisher: Scarecrow Press, 1985

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About the Author

Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and at fifteen moved with her family to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1884, left without any immediate family, she returned to Randolph, where she lived for almost twenty years with her childhood friend Mary Wales. She began to write seriously in the 1970s, & in the early 1880s her work began to appear in such popular magazines as Harper's Bazar and Harper's Monthly Magazine. At forty-nine Mary E. Wilkins married Charles Manning Freeman, a New Jersey physician, and moved to Metuchen. Thereafter she wrote under the name Mary E. Wilkins Freeman. In April 1926, she received the William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; later that year she was among the 1st women to be elected to membership in the Natl. Inst. of Art & Letters

Edition details

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810817756
• ISBN 13: 9780810817753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 587
• Editor: Kendrick Brent L.