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SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849–1909)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 371 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORNE See also:JEWETT (1849–1909)  , See also:American novelist, was See also:born in See also:South See also:Berwick, See also:Maine, on the 3rd of See also:September 1849 . She was a daughter of the physician See also:Theodore H . See also:Jewett (1815–1878), by whom she was greatly influenced, and whom she has See also:drawn in A See also:Country See also:Doctor (1884) . She studied at the Berwick See also:Academy, and began her See also:literary career in 1869, when she contributed her first See also:story to the See also:Atlantic Monthly . Her best See also:work consists of See also:short stories and sketches, such as those in . The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) . The See also:People of Maine, with their characteristic speech, See also:manners and traditions, she describes with See also:peculiar See also:charm and See also:realism, often recalling the work of See also:Hawthorne . She died at South Berwick, Maine, on the 24th of See also:June 1909 . Among her publications are: Deephaven (1877), a See also:series of sketches; Old See also:Friends and New (1879); Country By-ways (1881); A Country Doctor (1884), a novel; A See also:Marsh See also:Island (1885), a novel: A See also:White See also:Heron and other Stories (1886) ; The See also:King of Folly Island and other People (1888) ; Strangers and Wayfarers (189o) ; A Native of Winby and other Tales (1893) ; The See also:Queen's Twin and other Stories (1899), and The Tory See also:Lover (1901), an See also:historical novel .

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