Sarah Orne Jewett

Home > ... > Literature and the Arts > Literature in English > American Literature: Biographies > ...

Essential reading Compare
side-by-side The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett 1849-1909, American novelist and short-story writer, b. South Berwick, Maine. Her studies of small-town New England life are perceptive, sympathetic, and gently humorous. After contributing to periodicals, she published her first collection of stories and sketches, Deephaven, in 1877. It was followed by such collections as The King of Folly Island (1888) and her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). Her novels include The Marsh Island (1885) and The Tory Lover (1901); her best-known novel, A Country Doctor (1884), relates the conflicts of a woman physician.

Bibliography: See her letters (ed. by R. Cary, 1956, rev. ed. 1967); biographies by S. Sherman (1989) and P. Blanchard (1994); studies by F. O. Matthiesen (1929, repr. 1965), R. Cary (1962), and J. L. Donovan (1980).

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1E1-Jewett-S" title="Facts and information about Sarah Orne Jewett">Sarah Orne Jewett</a>

Give this article a thumbs-up on StumbleUpon

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

"Sarah Orne Jewett." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 23 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

"Sarah Orne Jewett." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (December 23, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Jewett-S.html

"Sarah Orne Jewett." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Retrieved December 23, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Jewett-S.html

Learn more about citation styles

Jewett, Sarah Orne

The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature | 2003 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature 2003, originally published by Oxford University Press 2003. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Jewett, Sarah Orne (1849–1909), American novelist and short story writer. Her volumes include Deephaven (1877), A Country Doctor (1884), A White Heron (1886; short stories), and The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896). Her precise, realistic, subdued portraits of ordinary New England people and her sense of community have won her an enduring reputation.

Create a link to this page

Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:

<a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/.aspx#1O54-JewettSarahOrne" title="Facts and information about Sarah Orne Jewett">Sarah Orne Jewett</a>

Cite this article
Pick a style below, and copy the text for your bibliography.

MLA
Chicago
APA

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Jewett, Sarah Orne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 23 Dec. 2009 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Jewett, Sarah Orne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (December 23, 2009). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-JewettSarahOrne.html

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Jewett, Sarah Orne." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved December 23, 2009 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-JewettSarahOrne.html

Learn more about citation styles

Related entries from encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauruses

Rate these entries|See all related entries

Free newspaper and magazine articles

	Special Relationships: Anglo-American Affinities and Antagonisms 1854-1936.(Book Review)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 5/1/2003
	Fidelity: Five Stories. Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 3/17/1993
	So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaslessly into the past.(importance of nostalgia in American history)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 7/1/2001

Facts and information from other sites

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, and more

	"Dolly Franklin's Decision": Sarah Orne Jewett's Definition of "A Good Girl" Magazine article from: Legacy; 4/30/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Dolly Franklin's Decision": Sarah Orne Jewett's Definition of "A Good Girl...recovering" the works of Sarah Orne Jewett began in earnest approximately...Blanchard's recent comment in Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work (1994...
	"Dolly Franklin's Decision": Sarah Orne Jewett's Definition of "A Good Girl".(Critical Essay) Magazine article from: Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...recovering" the works of Sarah Orne Jewett began in earnest approximately...Blanchard's recent comment in Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work (1994...Syndicates, 1860--1900 and "Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman...
	Knowing the World So Well - A Profile of Sarah Orne Jewett. Magazine article from: World and I; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...than the novels and stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Yet from 1868, when she published...know the parish." Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett was born on September 3, 1849...she wrote to Scudder, "is Sarah Orne Jewett, if you please." Despite...
	The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett.(Review) (book reviews) Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...and Louis A. Renza, eds. The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996. 208 pp...editors of this collection of short stories point out, Sarah Orne Jewett gives us literature that "represent[s] the first...
	Talk on Sarah Orne Jewett in author's early home Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 6/5/2003; 237 words ; ...Maine) 06-05-2003 Talk on Sarah Orne Jewett in author's early home Edition...and authority on Maine author Sarah Orne Jewett, will present a program Sunday...the house known today at the Sarah Orne Jewett House. The talk begins at 2...
	Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender. (book reviews) Magazine article from: Studies in Short Fiction; 6/22/1994; ; 700+ words ; Theodore Herman Jewett once advised his daughter, "Don...Margaret Roman illumines the radical means Sarah Orne Jewett adopted in order to follow this advice...limitations of Victorian gender constructs, Jewett "consciously collapses gender dichotomies...
	A new letter by Sarah Orne Jewett. (Notes). Magazine article from: ANQ; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...years 1882 to 1899, and among the letters is one by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909). (1) Written to her friend Susan...my best love to you and Hetta Yours affectionately Sarah O Jewett In this letter, "vitalized by a delightful and vigorous...
	UNE collection adds Sarah Orne Jewett material Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine); 4/3/2005; ; 276 words ; ...Herald (Maine) 04-03-2005 UNE collection adds Sarah Orne Jewett material Byline: Compiled by Bob Keyes Staff Writer...University of New England has acquired a top collection of Sarah Orne Jewett material. To celebrate, the collection is holding...
	Romantic flight in Jewett's "White Heron".(Sarah Orne Jewett) Magazine article from: Studies in American Fiction; 3/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...very good magazine story, but I love her....--Sarah Orne Jewett, letter to Annie Fields (ca. 1885) Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" (1886) tells the story of...
	New England ladies.(authors Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett) Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...writers: Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett. Born in Randolph, Massachusetts...Institute of Arts and Letters. Sarah Orne Jewett also wrote about New England life...into a wealthy family in 1849, Sarah listened to tales told by her...