Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jewett, Sarah Orne( 1849–1909),was born and reared in South Berwick, Me., near York, which resembles “Deephaven.” She was early stimulated by Harriet Beecher Stowe's sympathetic depiction of her state's local color, and determined to follow her in recording the life of the dwindling farms and deserted, shipless harbors. Her keen perception led to the Atlantic Monthly's accepting a story when she was 19. In 1873 it also printed The Shore House, beginning the series gathered as Deephaven (1877), which established her reputation, although she far exceeded it in her later writing. Her great friendship with Annie Fields brought her frequently to Boston, but she always returned to her native town to write her books. The most characteristic of these include A Country Doctor (1884), a novel about a New England girl who refuses marriage so as to become a doctor; A Marsh Island (1885), a novel depicting the love of a rich...
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