"Why don't you think more of Mary Wilkins?"

30 March 2024: Just obsessed with this passage from Sylvia Townsend Warner: "If I had the courage of my convictions downstairs, when everyone was talking about Joyce and Pound and melting pots, I would have said, 'Why don't you think more of Mary Wilkins?'" 

I think I saved the entry on Freeman until this point because everything about it feels big to me: the things I want to say, the idea of limiting those remarks, my feelings for her work. So consider me a strong co-sign for Warner's question: why don't you think more of Mary Wilkins? 

Work Cited

Warner, Sylvia Townsend. "Item, One Empty House." Critical Essays on Mary Wilkins Freeman, edited by Shirley Marchalonis, G.K. Hall, 1991, pp. 118-31.