The Country of the Pointed Firs (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: Late nineteenth century
- Setting: Maine seacoast
- Principal Characters: The Narrator, Almira Todd, Mrs. Blackett, William Blackett
- 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 Story:
The narrator, a woman writer, came to Dunnet Landing one summer to escape a too busy life in Boston. In this Maine coastal town, which had impressed her on an earlier visit, she hoped to find a quiet haven in which to complete a long-delayed, important piece of writing. She stayed with Mrs. Almira Todd, a widowed herbalist who turned out to be a central person in the village. Almira was a kind of partner both to the doctor and the minister in dealing with physical and emotional ills, especially of the women and children of Dunnet Landing. Almost without realizing it,...
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