Atlantic Monthly (essay date June 1891)
SOURCE: “New England in the Short Story.” Atlantic Monthly 67 (June 1891): 845-50.
[In the following essay, an anonymous reviewer for the Atlantic Monthly discusses short story collections by three regional authors from New England: Annie Trumbull Slosson, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, and Sarah Orne Jewett.]
There are two periods in the life of a country when the short story is peculiarly adapted to display the characteristics of the people: the first is when the country is virgin soil for the...
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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