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Young Lucretia: And Other Stories

Author
Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
4 hours 9 minutes
ISBN
9781836100270
Published
8 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • childhood
  • moral lessons
  • New England life
  • family dynamics
  • discipline
  • innocence
  • mischief
  • personal growth
  • ethical choices
  • social expectations

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Young Lucretia wants a ribbon her aunts will not allow, and that small denial opens a New England childhood of curiosity, pride, and getting found out. Around her, other children in tight households face temptation, mischief, and the sting honesty leaves behind. Parlours and yards become moral plots: growing up as bargains with conscience, and the feelings that follow when a treat costs more than it seemed.

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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