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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman sought to demonstrate in her writings her values as a feminist. During the time in which she was writing, from the 1890s well into the 20th century, she did this in nonconventional ways; for example, she diverged from making her female characters weak and in need of help, which was, at that time, a common trope in literature.  
Tonight’s story focuses on three women whose lives are interrupted by the presence in their shared house of a ghost in the persona of a child who cannot find its mother.  The ghastly but endearing child ghost, who comes to the story with an unhappy and unsettling provenance, affects each of the women differently, haunts each of them, to be sure, but finally settles on one who, through death, will help guide her through the afterlife.

And now, turn down the lights and join us for “The Lost Ghost” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman….