Jewett, Sarah Orne
Jewett, Sarah Orne ( 1849 – 1909 ),American novelist and short story writer, born in Maine, the daughter of a doctor. She was inspired when young by H. B. Stowe 's novel set in Maine, The Pearl of Orris Island, to write about her native region of New England, and began her career by publishing short stories in the Atlantic Monthly . Her volumes include Deephaven ( 1877 ), A Country Doctor ( 1884 ), A White Heron ( 1886 ; short stories), and The Country of the Pointed Firs ( 1896 ), which describes daily life in a decaying Maine seaport town. Her precise, realistic, subdued portraits of ordinary people and her sense of community and place bear witness to her admiration for Flaubert as an artist, and won her an enduring reputation; W. Cather records her debt to her in Not under Forty.
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