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Pembroke: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
6 hours 39 minutes
ISBN
9781836100317
Published
8 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • New England
  • broken engagement
  • pride
  • family conflict
  • romance
  • social expectations
  • small-town life
  • morality
  • love
  • 19th century

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When Barney Thayer and Charlotte Barnard’s engagement breaks over a political dispute, stubborn pride ripples through a tight New England town, tangling families, neighbours, and other romances in its wake. Principle and love collide under every window. Spoken as when Pembroke still asks what a community will pay when two hearts choose pride first.

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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