Author: Silverthorne, Elizabeth,
Title: Sarah Orne Jewett: a writer's life.
Description: Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Laid in newspaper review of book. First modern biography of Jewett, celebrated author of The Country of the Pointed Firs. which portrayed the lives of ordinary New Englanders just before the country's rush into industrialization. An early feminist, ecologist and architectural preservationist, Jewett was ahead of her time in many of her main concerns. She had a Wordworthian reverence for nature and believed materialism was destroying the bond between man and his natural environment.

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