Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and at fifteen moved
with her family to Brattleboro, Vermont. In 1884, left without any
immediate family, she returned to Randolph, where she lived for
almost twenty years with her childhood friend Mary Wales. She began
to write seriously in the 1970s, & in the early 1880s her work
began to appear in such popular magazines as Harper's Bazar and
Harper's Monthly Magazine. At forty-nine Mary E. Wilkins married
Charles Manning Freeman, a New Jersey physician, and moved to
Metuchen. Thereafter she wrote under the name Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman. In April 1926, she received the William Dean Howells Medal
for Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; later
that year she was among the 1st women to be elected to membership
in the Natl. Inst. of Art and Letters.
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