While Freeman wrote many short stories and novels, she is best remembered for A Humble Romance and Other Stories (1887), A New England Nun and Other Stories (1891), and the novel Pembroke (1894).
For other women writers at the time with thematically resonant works, please see: Kate Chopin, Jane Austen, Katherin Mansfield, Edith Wharton, Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Willa Cather, and Gertrude Stein.