Sarah Orne Jewett (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Living at a time when women were overshadowed by the men in their lives, Sarah Orne Jewett as a girl began to establish her identity as an individual by observing closely and recording her observations in writing. As a child, she often accompanied her father, a physician, on his house calls, thereby coming into contact with the total community of South Berwick, with which she always strongly identified.
Jewett began publishing (as A. C. Eliot) when she was eighteen. Her first melodramatic story, “Jenny Garrow’s Lovers,” is set in England and is...
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