The Wind in the Rosebush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Fiction, Literary - Mary E Wilkins Freeman - Bog

Freeman began writing stories and verse for children while still a teenager to help support her family and was quickly successful. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. Her best known work was written in the 1880s and 1890s while she lived in Randolph. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels.Her stories deal mostly with New England life and are among the best of their kind.