Download The Copy-Cat by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman. A 1914 young and juvenile fiction and general fiction work about children, imitation, school and family life, comic misunderstanding, moral learning and Freeman's later stories of youthful behaviour. Available in PDF, EPUB, MOBI and AZW3 formats.
About The Copy-Cat
The Copy-Cat by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman is a 1914 young and juvenile fiction and general fiction work about children, imitation, school and family life, comic misunderstanding, moral learning and Freeman's later stories of youthful behaviour. Ideal for readers interested in American regional fiction, New England settings, women's writing, ghost stories, childhood stories, romance, social realism and Freeman's exact moral observation.
Genres: Young and Juvenile Fiction | General Fiction
Why Read The Copy-Cat?
The Copy-Cat is worth reading because it shows Freeman writing about childhood and youth with sympathy, humour and a sharp sense of how young people encounter duty, family rules and self-knowledge. First published in 1914, the work is concerned with children, imitation, school and family life, comic misunderstanding, moral learning and Freeman's later stories of youthful behaviour. Freeman's writing is often quiet on the surface, but it is built around powerful pressures: family obligation, money, community judgement, inward stubbornness, faith, shame and the desire to live with dignity.
Readers may value the title for its close attention to ordinary people. Freeman makes kitchens, parlours, gardens, village roads, schoolrooms, churches, farms and small-town streets into spaces where large moral questions are acted out. Her characters are often constrained by custom, poverty, gender expectations or inherited pride, yet they retain a stubborn inward life. That tension gives the stories their emotional force.
The book is also useful for understanding late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American regional fiction. Freeman's New England is not merely picturesque; it is a social and moral environment where speech, silence and reputation matter. Modern readers should approach period assumptions critically, especially where class, gender, race, religion or social respectability appear. Even so, the work remains valuable because it preserves a precise record of feeling within ordinary lives.
This title adds to the larger Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman collection by showing another aspect of a writer whose art depends on compression, atmosphere and moral exactness. The Copy-Cat can be read for story, regional history, women's writing and character study, but it is especially rewarding because Freeman makes restraint dramatic. Her best work shows that a quiet life may still contain fierce decisions.
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