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By the Light of the Soul: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
12 hours 46 minutes
ISBN
9781836100294
Published
8 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • childhood
  • family
  • loss
  • innocence
  • moral growth
  • New England
  • introspection
  • grief
  • coming of age
  • emotional struggle

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Sensitive New England girl Maria Edgham faces her mother’s illness and her father’s possible remarriage as childhood innocence yields to loss, longing, and a hard moral awakening. Family bonds and adult realities press on quiet reflection until the soul must choose its light. Spoken as when by the light of the soul still asks what a daughter keeps when the household begins to change.

Author

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852–1930) grew up in Randolph, Massachusetts, and wrote the New England village as if every parlour were a theatre of will. A New England Nun is the famous short weather of a woman who will not be hurried into marriage; Pembroke is the same climate at novel length — pride, church, and a stubbornness that can freeze a town. She later took the Howells Medal. The regional is never small in her hands. Thrift has a pulse.

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