A01=Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
American literary realism
Author_Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
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Category=FYB
Christmas Jenny
cultural history
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giving
gothic
holiday celebrations
late 19th century
New England regional writing
psychological
romantic
sentiment
village life
women's regionalist fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9780807180167
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) was one of the most popular American writers at the turn of the twentieth century, and her annual Christmas stories appeared in magazines and periodicals across the globe. Since then, the extraordinary stories that once delighted her legions of fans every festive season have gone largely out of print and unread. Now, for the first time, The Last Gift presents a collection of Freeman's best Christmas writing, introducing these funny, poignant, provocative, and surprisingly timely holiday tales to a new generation of readers.
Thomas Ruys Smith is professor of American literature and culture at the University of East Anglia. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain and Christmas Past: An Anthology of Seasonal Stories from Nineteenth-Century America.
