Characters Discussed
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Helen Denis
Helen Denis, the narrator.
Kate Lancaster
Kate Lancaster, the narrator’s friend, who asks Helen to spend a summer at Deephaven with her in the house left to her mother by her great-aunt, Katherine Brandon. She and Helen are made welcome by those who have known the Lancaster family through several generations.
Dick Carew
Dick Carew, a retired East India merchant, one of Deephaven’s leading citizens.
Mrs. Carew
Mrs. Carew, his wife, a social leader in Deephaven.
Mr. Lorimer
Mr. Lorimer, a minister in Deephaven.
Mrs. Lorimer
Mrs. Lorimer, the minister’s wife.
Mrs. Kew
Mrs. Kew, wife of the keeper of a lighthouse near Deephaven. She becomes a great friend to Kate Lancaster and Helen Denis.
Captain Lant
Captain Lant, a retired sailor who tells the girls about Peletiah Daw and Peletiah’s wild nephew Ben.
Danny
Danny, a silent, weather-beaten sailor who tells the girls about his pet cat.
Captain Sands
Captain Sands, another old seafarer who befriends Helen and Kate.
Mrs. Bonny
Mrs. Bonny, an unconventional woman who lives near Deephaven. She reminds the girls of a friendly Indian.
Miss Chauncey
Miss Chauncey, an aristocratic old lady who lives, mildly insane, in an unfurnished old mansion.
Bibliography
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Suggested Readings
Blanchard, Paula. Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work. Cambridge, Mass.: Radcliffe Biography Series, 1994.
Cary, Richard. Sarah Orne Jewett. New York: Twayne, 1962.
Donovan, Josephine. New England Local Color Literature: A Woman’s Tradition. New York: Continuum, 1988.
Matthiessen, Francis Otto. Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1929.
Roman, Margaret. Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992.
