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    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun"
    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun"
    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun"
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    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun"

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    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535829472
    A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun"

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      A Study Guide for Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "New England Nun" - Gale

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      A New England Nun

      Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

      1891

      Introduction

      When A New England Nun was first published in A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), Mary Wilkins Freeman was already an established author of short stories and children’s literature. Her first book of short stories, A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887), had received considerable critical and popular attention, and she published stories in such notable journals as Harper’s Bazaar, Harper’s Monthly, and the New York Sunday Budget.

      Mary Wilkins Freeman is often classified as a local color writer. This means that she attempted to capture the distinct characteristics of regional America. Other well-known local colorists were Sarah Orne Jewett (with whom Freeman was often compared) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin). As in the work of other local color writers, a recognizable regional setting plays an important part in most of Freeman’s stories. However, she differed from writers such as Jewett and Stowe in that she rarely engaged in the meticulous description of places and people that they favored. The details in her stories tend to have symbolic significance, and most critics agree that her themes are more universal than those commonly found in much local color writing of the time. She is admired for her simple, direct prose and her insight into the psychology of her characters. A New England Nun has a very simple, perhaps even contrived plot. Yet Freeman manages to depict skillfully the personalities involved in this small drama and the time in which they lived.

      Author Biography

      Born in 1852, Mary Wilkins Freeman spent the first fifty years of her life in the rural villages of New England. It was an area suffering severe economic depression. The combination of fatalities from the Civil War (1861-65), westward expansion, and industrialization in the cities had taken large numbers of young men from the countryside. What remained was a population largely female, elderly, or both, struggling to earn a living

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