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A review by themockingbard
A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction, Short Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
5.0
This story delicately crushes stereotypes about women waiting for marriage and I am so here for it.
“Louisa, all alone by herself that night, wept a little, she hardly knew why; but the next morning, on waking, she felt like a queen who, after fearing lest her domain be wrested away from her, sees it firmly insured in her possession.”
“Louisa, all alone by herself that night, wept a little, she hardly knew why; but the next morning, on waking, she felt like a queen who, after fearing lest her domain be wrested away from her, sees it firmly insured in her possession.”