New England Gothic by the Light of Common Day

W HEN Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's 1895 prize-winning detective story, The Long Arm, first appeared in newspapers across the country, she had begun to make decisions about her professional writing that complicated both her career and her later critical reception. After firmly establishing her reputation as a leading regional realist with the periodical short fiction collected in A Humble Romance (1887) and A New England Nun (1891), she began to experiment with a range of genres in the mid-nineties that ultimately led her to produce over forty volumes of poetry, drama, and fiction. Most of this work remains relatively unexplored even though Freeman has benefited from the recent reappraisal of nineteenth-century women writers.' Of that work-and Freeman tried her hand at most of

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  Thomas C Leonard•Media History•1999

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