Data Portal @ linkeddatafragments.org

Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/002469632/catalog> ?p ?o. }

• catalog abstract "Although a prolific and popular writer in her day, Mary Wilkins Freeman has only recently been rediscovered and reevaluated as a realistic recorder of the status and sensibility of the New England woman in the early years of this century. Women form the backbone of her stories. Within a framework tightly controlled by patriarchal and religious tradition, Freeman's women strive for an understanding of the roles assigned to them. Through their relationships and responses, they test the limits of their freedom and learn the moral and personal consequences of rejecting or acquiescing to the roles the larger community has imposed on them. The rebellious woman became a key theme in Freeman's stories and a major image in her gallery of fictional portraits of women. A Web of Relationship reveals how she sharply delineates the lives and personalities of women who accept or reject the ideal Victorian code of "true womanhood" as mother and wife. This study of Freeman's stories throws light upon the other women her rich fictional narratives portray--women who are rejected by men and who feel their lives are thus worthless and their futures bleak; women frustrated yet submissive to the confines of marriage; women whose sole means of solidarity with other women is through self-aggrandizing gossip; women who must deal each day with the twin hardships of advancing age and poverty. Freeman's unifying theme is the web of relationships connecting every type of New England woman struggling toward selfhood despite straitened circumstances and repression by family and community. Freeman's collective portraits of New England women not only give insight into her art but also reveal her penetrating vision of women frustrated by the confusing and confining roles forced upon them in this time and place.".
• catalog contributor b3561848.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "1. Backgrounds -- 2. Contexts -- 3. Women as Daughters in the Family: "The Web of Self-Strangulation" -- 4. Women, Men, and Marriage: "Reckoning Them in with Providence" -- 5. Women as Friends and Rivals: "Friend of My Heart" -- 6. Women Alone: "I Hadn't Orter Feel This Way" -- Appendix: Bibliography of Mary Wilkins Freeman's Works".
• catalog description "Although a prolific and popular writer in her day, Mary Wilkins Freeman has only recently been rediscovered and reevaluated as a realistic recorder of the status and sensibility of the New England woman in the early years of this century. Women form the backbone of her stories. Within a framework tightly controlled by patriarchal and religious tradition, Freeman's women strive for an understanding of the roles assigned to them. Through their relationships and responses, they test the limits of their freedom and learn the moral and personal consequences of rejecting or acquiescing to the roles the larger community has imposed on them. The rebellious woman became a key theme in Freeman's stories and a major image in her gallery of fictional portraits of women. A Web of Relationship reveals how she sharply delineates the lives and personalities of women who accept or reject the ideal Victorian code of "true womanhood" as mother and wife. This study of Freeman's stories throws light upon the other women her rich fictional narratives portray--women who are rejected by men and who feel their lives are thus worthless and their futures bleak; women frustrated yet submissive to the confines of marriage; women whose sole means of solidarity with other women is through self-aggrandizing gossip; women who must deal each day with the twin hardships of advancing age and poverty. Freeman's unifying theme is the web of relationships connecting every type of New England woman struggling toward selfhood despite straitened circumstances and repression by family and community. Freeman's collective portraits of New England women not only give insight into her art but also reveal her penetrating vision of women frustrated by the confusing and confining roles forced upon them in this time and place.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-180) and index.".
• catalog extent "xix, 186 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "087805555X".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,".
• catalog spatial "New England.".
• catalog subject "813/.4 20".
• catalog subject "Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930 Characters Women.".
• catalog subject "PS1713 .R45 1992".
• catalog subject "Short story.".
• catalog subject "Women and literature New England.".
• catalog subject "Women in literature.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. Backgrounds -- 2. Contexts -- 3. Women as Daughters in the Family: "The Web of Self-Strangulation" -- 4. Women, Men, and Marriage: "Reckoning Them in with Providence" -- 5. Women as Friends and Rivals: "Friend of My Heart" -- 6. Women Alone: "I Hadn't Orter Feel This Way" -- Appendix: Bibliography of Mary Wilkins Freeman's Works".
• catalog title "A web of relationship : women in the short stories of Mary Wilkins Freeman / Mary R. Reichardt.".
• catalog type "text".