The Country of the Pointed Firs (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- First Published: 1896
- 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
The Work
In The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett focuses on a topic similar to that found in Deephaven (1877); in both books, summer visitors from the city meet the sometimes-eccentric local population of a remote Maine village. The narrator in The Country of the Pointed Firs, a middle-aged female writer, has come to the village for the solitude she has associated with the place since an earlier brief visit. She boards with Mrs. Todd, a widow with mystical powers, who gathers and sells curative herbs. Mrs. Todd’s rural ways contrast sharply...
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