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![]() ![]() ![]() Freeman’s mother died three years later, and she changed her middle name to “Eleanor” in her memory.įreeman’s father died suddenly in 1883, leaving her without any immediate family and an estate worth only $973. When the family’s dry goods business in Vermont failed in 1873, the family returned to Randolph, Massachusetts. She later finished her education at Glenwood Seminary in West Brattleboro. In 1867, the family moved to Brattleboro, Vermont, where Freeman graduated from the local high school before attending, Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. Freeman’s parents were orthodox Congregationalists, bestowing a very strict childhood. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (Octo– March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author.įreeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts on October 31, 1852, to Eleanor Lothrop and Warren Edward Wilkins, who originally baptized her “Mary Ella”. ![]()
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