Sarah Orne Jewett (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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Sarah Orne Jewett wrote four novels, and she published popular books for children, including Play Days (1878) and Betty Leicester (1890). Her main work of nonfiction was a history, The Story of the Normans (1887).
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Sarah Orne Jewett is best known as a local colorist who captured with fidelity the life of coastal Maine in the late nineteenth century in sensitive and moving portraits, mainly of women’s lives. Except for The Country of the Pointed Firs, widely considered her masterpiece, Jewett’s...
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