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The Copy-Cat: And Other Stories

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Language
English
Length
258 pages
ISBN
9781836101727
Published
15 February 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Childhood
  • identity
  • imitation
  • social rivalry
  • small-town life
  • self-discovery
  • jealousy
  • innocence
  • human nature
  • moral insight

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The Copy-Cat and Other Stories is a late 19th-century collection exploring childhood, identity, and social dynamics. In the title story, plain Amelia Wheeler admires and imitates the beautiful Lily Jennings, navigating schoolyard rivalry, admiration, and the desire for acceptance. Freeman’s tales reveal the subtleties of human behavior, the complexities of growing up, and the humor, longing, and lessons embedded in everyday life and youthful interactions.

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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