The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett

Her first book, Deephaven, was published in 1877. Sarah Orne Jewett’s first short story was published in 1869 when she was nineteen. Such domestic arrangement was common at this time and was referred to often as a Boston Marriage there is no evidence that the two were lovers. Fields, the publisher and editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

Jewett never married. She shared a house most of her adult life with the writer Annie Adams Fields, the widow of James T.

From 1881 she lived sporadically in Boston but travelled in Europe for lengthy periods of time but Maine remained the place where she felt most at home. She developed an interest in nonconformist religious ideas and had even joined the Episcopal Church in her early twenties she was influenced greatly by the Swedish theologian and scientist Emanuel Swedenborg. Her parental home had an impressive library, and she read widely as a child. Jewett’s intellectual background was artisan and at ease with rural America. Much of Jewett’s writing is autobiographical and incorporates much of her childhood experience of the area, her love of its countryside and of thenatural world in general. Memories of this perambulatory ritual made their way into her writing. Jewett’s family were longstanding residents of New England and well-regarded her father was a doctor and a keen amateur naturalist.Īs a child Jewett suffered from rheumatoid arthritis, and her treatment included going for lengthy walks or accompanying her father on his rounds of the fishing and farming communities of the area. These stories are sympathetic portraits of life in this locality – the small seaports and inland terrain of the southern sea coast of Maine – tell of its hardships and isolation, and avoid any sentimentality or histrionics. OL67227W Page_number_confidence 87.06 Pages 342 Ppi 300 Republisher_date 20191211203345 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 306 Scandate 20191209180501 Scanner ORNE JEWETT (1849 – 1909) set many of her stories in the fictional towns of Deephaven and Dunnet Landing Dunnet Landing is clearly modelled on South Berwick, Jewett’s birthplace. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 12:48:44 Associated-names Chase, Mary Ellen, 1887-1973 Boxid IA1734522 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett