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The Revolt of Mother and Other Stories

出版	Feminist Press, 1974
主題	Fiction / GeneralFiction / Short Stories (single author)
ISBN	09126701859780912670188
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=muusAAAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋" With the rediscovery of her works by American feminists, the nineteenth-century New England writer Mary Wilkens Freeman has come to be acknowledged as an important contributor to American literature. Her heroines are the plain and poverty-hardened women who sustained the villages of northern New England through the economic hardships of the late 1880s, when great numbers of men were moving on to the more lucrative frontiers of the Middle and Far West. Often these heroines are not young and "beautiful": many are middle-aged or elderly spinsters "without prospects," and their primary relationships are to other women. In time of need, they stand by each other - mothers, sisters, aunts, friends. In terms of social class - measured in food, clothing, shelter - they are judged harshly by their New England neighbors, yet they treasure their meager economic independence. And their staunch sense of responsibility, of fidelity to each other and to the land, endures. It was in her early works that Freeman excelled in portraying these unpretentious New England heroines, and eight of the best stories from her first two books - A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887) and A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891) - are contained in this volume." --