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The Butterfly House

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
4 hours 47 minutes
ISBN
9781836100324
Published
8 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • small-town life
  • social ambition
  • female rivalry
  • community gossip
  • social class
  • identity
  • constrained lives
  • tradition
  • quiet conflict
  • New Jersey village

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In self-satisfied Fairbridge, quiet rivalries and ambitions simmer under polite clubs and subtle judgments as figures like Mrs Wilbur Edes and Alice Mendon navigate desire in a town proud of its narrow traditions. Spoken as when the butterfly house still asks what a village will allow when pride sets the rules.

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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