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Silence: And Other Stories

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
5 hours 28 minutes
ISBN
9781836100287
Published
8 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • New England
  • women’s lives
  • social pressure
  • frontier
  • captivity
  • moral tension
  • psychological realism
  • historical fiction
  • resilience
  • sacrifice

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New England tales of women’s inner lives under social and spiritual strain, led by Silence Hoit waiting through fear and longing after a frontier raid takes her lover David, until return tests what hope can hold. Companion stories weigh family sacrifice, ambition, and the quiet pressures shaping a woman’s choices. Spoken as when silence still asks what a heart endures before news comes home.

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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