She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She passed the greater part of her life in Massachusetts and Vermont.įreeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. She later finished her education at West Brattleboro Seminary. Religious constraints play a key role in some of her works. Freeman's parents were orthodox Congregationalists, causing her to have a very strict childhood. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman was born in Randolph, Massachusetts, and attended Mount Holyoke College (then, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary) in South Hadley, Massachusetts, for one year, from 1870–71.
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