Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s First Published Story | Semantic Scholar
@article{Eppard2013MaryEW,
title={Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s First Published Story},
author={Philip B. Eppard},
journal={American Literary Realism},
year={2013},
volume={45},
pages={268 - 281},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:161792833}
}Mary E. Wilkins Freeman had published verses and Sunday school exercises in children’s periodicals such as Good Times, St. Nicholas, and Wide Awake when, in late 1881, she entered a short story contest sponsored by the Boston Sunday Budget, a weekly paper that had begun publication in 1879. It was her first attempt at writing a story for adults. Her winning the contest and its fifty dollar first prize can be considered the event that launched her long career as a short story writer and, later…