The Country of the Pointed Firs (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: The seacoast of Maine
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism, Regional fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Memory, Love or romance, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Villages, Friendship, New England, Women, Small-town life, Sailing or sailors, Loneliness, Fishing or fishermen, Old age or elderly people, Nostalgia, Folk medicine, Herbs
- Locales: Dunnet Landing, ME
Characters Discussed
The Boarder, a woman writer who comes to Dunnet Landing, Maine, to work in seclusion. Here she meets many people and finds friendly, interesting characters.
Mrs. Almira Todd, a friendly widow who accepts the writer as a boarder. She is also an herb doctor, growing herbs in her garden and searching out others in the fields.
Captain Littlepage, an elderly, retired sea captain who tells the writer a yarn about his own shipwreck and a town of ghosts near the North Pole, where souls await their passage to the next world.
Mrs. Blackett, Mrs....
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