“Her Happy Solitary Life”: Singleness and Queering the Norm in “Martha’s Lady” by Sarah Orne Jewett and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Winner of the 2020 WTM Riches Essay Prize
Introduction
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s “A New England Nun,” published in A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), and Sarah Orne Jewett’s “Martha’s Lady,” ... Read More...