Fiction · 1903
The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
Six ghost stories of New England, each built around a small, ordinary household — a returning garment, a woman who never seems to age, a room that keeps something more than memory — in which the supernatural surfaces not in gothic castles or ancient curses but in the most familiar domestic settings imaginable.
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman published The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural in 1903, a departure into the ghost story from the small-town New England realism that had made her reputation; her hauntings stay rooted in the everyday world of houses, families, and neighbors rather than in anything more exotic.
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1852–1930 · Victorian
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and spent most of her life in small New England towns whose closed, often severe domestic world became the subject of her fiction. She was one of the leading American "local color" writers of her generation, best known for short-story collections such as A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891) and, in a different vein, The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural (1903). In 1926 she was among the first recipients of the William Dean Howells Medal for Fiction. She married late, at forty-nine, and died in Metuchen, New Jersey, at seventy-seven.
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