Mary Wilkins Freeman

Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins - 1852–1930, American author, b. Randolph, Mass. Her stories and novels paint a picture of Massachusetts and Vermont still under the influence of Puritanism, in her view, a philosophy made rigid by time. Her short story collections include A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891). Her novels, published under her Read More...

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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
by Edward Foster. 244 pgs.

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Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter: Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Notes

Bibliography

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A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader
by Mary R. Reichardt. 393 pgs.

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Mary Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), born in Randolph, Massachusetts, began to publish stories about New England in the early 1880s. In the following decades, Freeman drew widespread praise for her intimate portraits of women and her realistic depictions of rural New England life. She published short stories, essays, novels, plays, and children's books. Her stories, written in a clear and direct prose, are remarkable for their unpretentious, sympathetic portrayals of the lives of ordinary New Englanders of Freeman's era. Many of the stories depict rebellion against oppressive social and private conditions. Others describe conflicting desires for independence and lasting relationships. This volume of twenty-eight stories is the first to provide a representative sample of Freeman's finest work, from all phases of her career.

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A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader

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Introduction

Part One: Stories from a Humble Romance (1887) a New England Nun (1891)

An Honest Soul: 1884

A Conflict Ended: 1886

An Independent Thinker: 1887

A New England Nun: 1887

Christmas Jenny: 1888

Life-Everlastin': 1889

A Village Singer: 1889

A Church Mouse: 1889

A Poetess: 1890

The Revolt of "Mother": 1890

Louisa: 1890

Part Two: Stories from Silence (1898) the Love of Parson Lord (1900) Understudies (1901) Six Trees (1903) the Wind in the Rose-Bush (1903)

Evelina's Garden: 1896

One Good Time: 1897

The Parrot: 1900

Arethusa: 1900

The Balsam Fir: 1901

The Great Pine: 1902

Luella Miller: 1902

The Lost Ghost: 1903

Part Three: Stories from the Givers (1904) the Fair Lavinia (1907) the Whole Family (1908) the Winning Lady (1909) the Copy-Cat (1914) Edgewater People (1918)

Eglantina: 1902

The Revolt of Sophia Lane (The Givers): 1903

The Reign of the Doll: 1904

The Gold: 1904

The Old-Maid Aunt: 1908

Old Woman Magoun: 1905

The Selfishness of Amelia Lamkin: 1908

The Balking of Christopher: 1912

The outside of the House: 1914
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"I Never Saw Anything at Once So Pathetic and Funny": Humor in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Gregg Camfield. 17 pgs.

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Redefining Place: Femes Covert in the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman, in Studies in Short Fiction
by Janice Daniel. 8 pgs.

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Crossing the Double-Cross: The Practice of Feminist Criticism (Chap. 2 "Signs of Undecidability: Reconsidering the Stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman")
by Elizabeth A. Meese. 180 pgs.

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PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1 Sexual Politics and Critical Judgment

Chapter 2 Signs of Undecidability: RECONSIDERING THE STORIES OF MARY WILKINS FREEMAN

Chapter 3 Orality and Textuality in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God

Chapter 4 a World of Women: MARILYNNE ROBINSON'S HOUSEKEEPING

Chapter 5 Crossing the Double-Cross: THE CONCEPT OF "DIFFERENCE" AND FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM

Chapter 6 Deconstructing the Sexual Politic: VIRGINIA WOOLF AND TILLIE OLSEN

Chapter 7 Defiance: THE BODY (OF) WRITING/ THE WRITING (OF) BODY

Chapter 8 In/Conclusion: THE PROBLEM OF THEORY AND THE PRACTICE OF FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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The Displacement of Desire: Consumerism and Fetishism in Mary Wilkins Freeman's Fiction, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Monika M. Elbert. 24 pgs.

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The No-Man's-Land of "A New England Nun," in Studies in Short Fiction
by Ben Couch. 13 pgs.

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Giles Corey and the Pressing Past, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Donald R. Anderson. 14 pgs.

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Must Age Equal Failure?: Sociology Looks at Mary Wilkins Freeman's Old Women, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Doris J. Turkes. 18 pgs.

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The Shadow Narrative in Mary Wilkins Freeman's "Silence," in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by William J. Scheick. 13 pgs.

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"It's Your Father's Way": The Father-Daughter Narrative and Female Development in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 'Pembroke,' in Studies in the Novel
by Heather Kirk Thomas. 14 pgs.

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Necessary Madness: The Humor of Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature ("Mary Wilkins Freeman: Inherit the Will" begins on p. 135)
by Gregg Camfield. 240 pgs.

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In this rich, exciting new book, Gregg Camfield explores nineteenth-century American humor from the perspective of gender and domestic ideology, challenging recent theory asserting a broad gulf between men's and women's humor during the period and contributing vital new insights to the study of humor in general. Capturing in part I a vision of humor unique to the era, Camfield examines the period's faith in what was called "amiable humor," a genial and supple comic mode whose non- aggression makes it resist easy assimilation to theories stressing humor's basis in hostility, negation, rage, and other combative or displaced energies. Seeking to illuminate this distinct comedy, Camfield probes a related, central cultural strand--the domesticity ideal--that so often is a subject of this humor, carefully tracking contact between the two discourses and identifying their common social and intellectual roots. Turning next to four literary case-studies powerfully revealing of this contact, Camfield in part II pairs male and female humorists--Washington Irving and Fanny Fern; Harriet Beecher Stowe and Herman Melville; Mark Twain and Marietta Holley; and George Washington Harris and Mary Wilkins Freeman--not only to demonstrate the way these influential writers approach domesticity with genial humor, but also to support his claim that gender difference does not always correlate to differences in viewpoint and practice within this common style. Where many argue nineteenth- century women's humor constitutes a genre unto itself, Camfield finds that like women, men filtered reaction to the constraints and opportunities of home life through genial comedy, and that women, like their male counterparts, wrote humor marked by extravagance, expansion, caricature, fantasy, and posturing. Broadening out to an intriguing consideration of humor theory in part III, Camfield draws on recent work in psychology, culture studies, neo-pragmatist philosophy, and neuroscience to model a compelling alternative view of humor capable of negotiating both the complexities of nineteenth-century American humor and the comic art of periods before and since. Students and scholars of humor, nineteenth-century American literature and culture, and women's writing, will find Necessary Madness to be a provocative, essential achievement.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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One Humor in a Heartless Haven

Two Home in a Rage

Three Tending the Home Fires

Four Home, Sweat Home

Five Madness Runs in Families

Six Humorneutics

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Unruly Tongue: Identity and Voice in American Women's Writing, 1850-1930 (Chap. 3 "From the Law of the Father to the Law of the Feminine: Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's Revisionary Voices")
by Martha J. Cutter. 228 pgs.

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A study of how women writers found ways to sound an authoritative voice in the male-dominated world.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Problem of Voice in American culture, 1850-1930

2: American Women's Fiction, 1850-1880: Domestic Discourses in the Writings of Fanny Fern, Louisa May Alcott, and Harriet Wilson

3: From the Law of the Father to the Law of the Feminine Mary Wilkins Freeman's and Anna Julia Cooper's Revisionary Voices

4: The Search for a Feminine Voice in the Works of Kate Chopin

5: Herstory in Hisland, History in Herland Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Reconstruction of Gender and Language

6: The Politics of Hybridity in Frances Harper's Iola Leroy

7: Jessie Fauset's and Willa Cather's Metalinguistic, Ethnic Discourses

8: Coda Beyond the Binary?

Notes

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Index
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Hawthorne and Women: Engendering and Expanding the Hawthorne Tradition ("The Unfortunate Fall: Women and Genteel Poverty in the Fiction of Hawthorne and Freeman" begins on p. 191)
by John L. Idol Jr., Melinda M. Ponder. 324 pgs.

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A collection of essays offering a complex yet positive view of Hawthorne's attitudes toward women, this text examines the influence exerted by the women in Hawthorne's immediate family, and explores his links to a range of women writers.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Again and Again, The Scribbling Women

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Tireless Hawthorne Booster

The Chief Employ of Her Life: Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's Contribution to Her Husband's Career

Memories of Hawthorne: Rose Hawthorne Lathrop's Auto/Biography

Margaret Fuller on Hawthorne: Formative Views by a Woman of the Nineteenth Century

Rappaccini's Garden And Emerson's Concord: Translating the Voice of Margaret Fuller

Stowe and Hawthorne

Discord in Concord: National Politics and Literary Neighbors

Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard's "Immortal Feather"

Annie Fields's Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mary Russell Mitford: Hawthorne as the Best Living Writer Of Prose Fiction

Virgin Saint, Mother Saint: Hilda and Dorothea

Partly Sympathy and Partly Rebellion: Mary Ward, the Scarlet Letter, and Hawthorne

Hawthorne's Legacy to Rebecca Harding Davis

Hawthorne, Jewett, and the Meditative Sublime

The Unfortunate Fall: Women and Genteel Poverty In the Fiction of Hawthorne and Freeman

Katharine Lee Bates: Hawthorne Student, Teacher, Critic, and Respondent

Cather and Hawthorne: Kindred Spirits

Demons of Wickedness, Angels of Delight: Hawthorne, Woolf, and the Child

Emily Dickinson's Pearls

Such a Hopeless Task Before Her: Some Observations on the Fiction of Hawthorne and Gilman

Bourgeois Sexuality and the Gothic Plot in Wharton and Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter as Pre-Text for Flannery O'Connor's "Good Country People"

Toward a Reader's History "Ghosts Might Enter Here"

Appendix

Selective Bibliography

Contributors

Index
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The Current State of Freeman Bibliographical and Textual Studies, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Charles Johanningsmeier. 25 pgs.

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)" begins on p. 139)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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