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Jerome, A Poor Man: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
11 hours 41 minutes
ISBN
9781836100225
Published
7 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • poverty
  • resilience
  • rural life
  • childhood
  • social class
  • pride
  • family struggle
  • innocence
  • hardship
  • dignity

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Jerome, a Poor Man centers on twelve-year-old Jerome Edwards, growing up in stark poverty in rural New England. Proud and sensitive, he faces hunger, cold, and social shame with quiet resilience. The opening shows him savoring spring sunshine despite hardship, refusing charity out of pride, and returning to a tense home life. The novel explores dignity, innocence, and endurance amid deprivation.

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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