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Pembroke: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Language
English
Length
250 pages
ISBN
9781836101826
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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Pembroke is set in 1830s Massachusetts and follows the fallout of Barney Thayer and Charlotte Barnard’s broken engagement over a political dispute. Their stubbornness reverberates through the town, impacting families and neighbors. Through tangled romances, familial strife, and tragic misunderstandings, Freeman explores pride, principle, and the complexities of love in a tightly knit New England community.

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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