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The Debtor: A Novel

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Language
English
Length
498 pages
ISBN
9781836101772
Published
17 February 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • small-town life
  • social class
  • propriety
  • debt
  • reputation
  • human behavior
  • morality
  • ambition
  • humor
  • societal expectation

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The Debtor is set in Banbridge, a small New England village shaped by wealth, class, and social expectation. The story follows residents navigating propriety, ambition, and human folly, particularly socially conscious women whose interactions reveal pride, curiosity, and class tensions. Early scenes, including a humorous social-call mishap, foreshadow the intricate interplay of debt, reputation, and the moral choices that drive the narrative.

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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