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Evelina's Garden

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

Book Overview: 

This is a long short story from 1899, approximately 95 minutes more or less, about a mysterious woman living virtually alone on the outskirts of a small New England town in a mansion with a magnificent garden.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .Even the cedar chest where Evelina's mother's blue bridal array was stored had its till heaped with rose leaves and lavender.

When Evelina was nearly seventy years old the old nurse who had lived with her her whole life died. People wondered then what she would do. “She can't live all alone in that great house,” they said. But she did live there alone six months, until spring, and people used to watch her evening lamp when it was put out, and the morning smoke from her kitchen chimney. “It ain't safe for her to be there alone in that great house,” they said.

But early in April a young girl appeared one Sunday in the old Squire's pew. Nobody had seen her come to town, and nobody knew who she was or where she came from, but the old people said she looked just as Evelina Adams used to when she was young, and she must be some relation. The old man who had used to look across the meeting-house at Evelina, over forty years ago, looked . . . Read More

Community Reviews

A sweet old story about love and loneliness.

This is a sweet romance.

Very sweet and romantic; not expected ending

This novelette is based on two quiet love stories; one of the elderly Evelina who lives a secluded life, delighting in her magnificent garden, and the other story is of her young cousin, also named Evelina. The characters are pleasantly quaint and old-fashioned. The main characters invest lovely emp

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