Author: Blanchard, Paula,
Title: Sarah Orne Jewett: her world and her work: Radcliffe biography series.
Description: Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1995). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Best known for her masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our. time. Place, traditional values & our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewett's portrayal of the "grand and simple lives" of coastal Maine. We are plunged into New England literary life in turn of the century Boston with Nery James, Lowell, Howells, Whittier & Oliver Wendell Holmes. Her close friendships with women from the young Willa Cather to her partner in a Boston marriage Annie Fields.

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