Sarah Orne Jewett

Jewett, Sarah Orne - 1849–1909, American novelist and short-story writer, b. South Berwick, Maine. Her studies of small-town New England life are perceptive, sympathetic, and gently humorous. After contributing to periodicals, she published her first collection of stories and sketches, Deephaven, in 1877. It was followed by such collections as The King of Folly Island (1888) and her Read More...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work
by Paula Blanchard. 397 pgs.

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Radcliffe Biography Series

Radcliffe Biography Series

Sarah de St. Prix Wyman Whitman 1842-1904

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Prologue

1: Beginnings

2: Early Years

3: Father and Mother

4: Girlhood

5: Neither Marrying nor Giving in Marriage

6: Finding Her Way

7: Be Good Sweet Maid

8: Deephaven

9: Beyond the Village

10: Keeping Her Balance

11: Annie

12: Europe

13: Sarah and Annie

14: The Law of Her Nature

15: Calm Seas and a Following Wind

16: Berwick Dust

17: Friends

18: A Sound Tap-Root

19: Their Sky and Their Earth

20: The Country of the Pointed Firs

21: At Home and Abroad

22: The Queen's Twin and Other Citizens of the World

23: The Tory Lover

24: Last Years

Notes

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Index

About the Author
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The Country of the Pointed Firs
by Sarah Orne Jewett. 306 pgs.

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A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous and compassionate vision of New England character.

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I. the Return.

Ii. Mrs. Todd.

Iii. the Schoolhouse.

Iv. at the Schoolhouse Window.

V. Captain Littlepage.

Vi. the Waiting Place.

Vii. the Outer Island.

Viii. Green Island.

Ix. William.

X Where Pennyroyal Grew.

Xi. the Old Singers.

Xii. a Strange Sail.

Xiii. Poor Joanna.

Xiv. the Hermitage.

Xv. on Shell-Heap Island.

Xvi. the Great Expedition.

Xvii. a Country Road.

Xviii. the Bowden Reunion.

Xix. the Feast's End.

Xx. Along Shore.

Xxi. a Dunnet Shepherdess.

Xxii. William's Wedding.

Xxiii. the Queen's Twin.

Xxiv. the Backward View.
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Sarah Orne Jewett
by John Eldridge Frost. 174 pgs.

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Foreword

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List of Illustrations

Chapter I A River Society And Its Sequel

Chapter II Of Authors and Editors

Chapter III Writing Days

Chapter IV The Closing Years

Chapter V The Literary Craftsman

Notes

Books by Sarah Orne Jewett

Index (name and Title Index)
4.

Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender
by Margaret Roman. 248 pgs.

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In her book Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, Margaret Roman argues that one theme colors almost every short story and novel by the turn-of-the-century American author: each person, regardless of sex, must break free of the restrictive, polar-opposite norms of behavior traditionally assigned to men and women by a patriarchal society. That society, as seen from Jewett's perspective during the late Victorian era, was one in which a competitive, active man dominates a passive, emotional woman. Frequently referring to Jewett's own New England upbringing at the hands of an unusually progressive father, Roman demonstrates how the writer, through her personal quest for freedom and through the various characters she created, strove to eliminate the necessity for rigid and narrowly defined male-female roles and relationships. With the details of Jewett's free-spirited life, Roman's book represents a solid work of literary scholarship, which traces a gender-dissolving theme throughout Jewett's writing. Whereas previous critics have focused primarily on her best-known works, including "A White Heron," Deephaven, A Country Doctor, and The Country of the Pointed Firs, Roman encompasses within her own discussion virtually all of the stories found in the nineteen volumes Jewett published during her lifetime. And although much recent criticism has centered around Jewett's strong female characters, Roman is the first to explore in depth Jewett's male characters and married couples. The book progresses through distinct phases that roughly correspond to Jewett's psychological development as a writer. In general, the characters in her early works exhibit one of two modes of behavior. Youngsters, free as Jewett was to explore the natural world of woods and field, glimpse the possibility of escape from the confining standards that society has set, though some experience turbulent and confusing adolescences where those

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Jewett's "Housebreaker" Versus Ruskin's "Queens": Liberation from the Victorian Home and Garden

I: Escape and Denial

2: Adolescent Retreat

3: Fairy Godmothers

II: No Escape: The Acceptance of Dual Norms

4: Paralyzed Men

5: Aristocratic Women

6: Romance

7: The Standard Marriage

III: Breaking Free

8: Sexual Transformation

9: Women Unrestrained

10: Redeemed Men

11: The Postponed Marriage

12: "A White Heron": Symbolic Possibilities for Androgyny

13: Beyond Gender: The Country of the Pointed Firs

Afterword

List of Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Index
5.

Fiction of the Home Place: Jewett, Cather, Glasgow, Porter, Welty, and Naylor
by Helen Fiddyment Levy. 268 pgs.

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1. Introduction: The Other Place

2. Home-Made

3. Damming the Stream

4. Building on Barren Ground

5. the Land That is Nowhere

6. the Oldest Root Sometimes Blooms Most

7. Lead on with Light

8. Conclusion

Notes

Works Consulted

Index
6.

Regions of Identity: The Construction of America in Women's Fiction, 1885-1914 ("Reading Critical Readings of Jewett" begins on p. 15)
by Kate McCullough. 366 pgs.

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Examining turn-of-the-centry American women's fiction, the author argues that this writing played a crucial role in the production of a national fantasy of a unified American identity in the face of racial, regional, ethnic and sexual divisions.

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Introduction

1: (Re)Drawing Boundaries Looking Back at a Boston Marriage in 'The Country of the Pointed Firs'

2: But Some Times . . . I Don't Marry,--Even in Books" Boston Marriages, Creoles, and the Future of the Nation"

3: Slavery, Sexuality, and Genre: Pauline E. Hopkins's Negotiations of (African) American Womanhood

4: Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's Geographies of Race, Regions of Religion

5: Kate Chopin and (Stretching) The Limits of Local Color Fiction

6: Transnational Geographies of Race: Eurasian" Communities and the Nation in 'Mrs. Spring Fragrance'"

Reference Matter

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)" begins on p. 270)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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8.

Knowing the World So Well - A Profile of Sarah Orne Jewett, in World and I
by Linda Simon. 5 pgs.

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Withdrawing from the Nation: Regionalist Literature as Ascetic Practice in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Coby Dowdell. 16 pgs.

Journal Article
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Troubling Regionalism: Rural Life and the Cosmopolitan Eye in Jewett's Deephaven, in American Literary History
by Sandra A. Zagarell. 25 pgs.

Journal Article
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Eunice and the Jade Gods: Jewett's Religious Rhetoric in A Country Doctor, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Terry Heller. 18 pgs.

Journal Article
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"Dolly Franklin's Decision": Sarah Orne Jewett's Definition of A Good Girl, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Charles Johanningsmeier. 13 pgs.

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Romantic Flight in Jewett's White Heron, in Studies in American Fiction
by Joseph Church. 24 pgs.

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14.

The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
by Sarah Orne Jewett, Jack Morgan, Louis A. Renza. 149 pgs.

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In their introduction, editors Jack Morgan and Louis A. Renza point out that in these stories Jewett displayed a remarkable empathy for the Irish. Undoing the "Paddy" stereotype favored in nineteenth-century Yankee discourse, Jewett exhibited an understanding of the immigrant psyche unheard of among her fellow writers - including Emerson and Thoreau, both of whom wrote disdainfully of the Irish. Morgan and Renza further discuss the stories in the context of contemporary multicultural and ethnic concerns, showing that Jewett's Irish stories demonstrate a renewal - a redefining, questioning, and expanding of cultural boundaries within concentrated American communities, her own New England area in particular. As such, the editors contend, the stories constitute important documents in the history of a country still engaged with the multi-ethnic as well as the multi-individual paradox of E pluribus unum.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Imagining the Irish in the Works Of Sarah Orne Jewett

Notes

The Luck Of the Bogans

A Little Captive Maid

The Gray Mills Of Farley

Where's Nora?

Bold Words At the Bridge

A Landlocked Sailor

Elleneen
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Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
by Sarah Orne Jewett, Annie Fields. 259 pgs.

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A Sarah Orne Jewett Companion
by Robert L. Gale. 344 pgs.

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