Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, the daughter of a country doctor. Suffering from arthritis, she often missed school and accompanied her father on his rounds. She published her first short story in 1868 in a Boston weekly, then joined the Atlantic Monthly. She shared nearly thirty years of her life with Annie Fields, the widow of a publisher, between Boston and Maine, and travelled with her in Europe. A carriage accident in 1902 put an end to her work. She died in South Berwick in 1909.

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• NovelThe Country of the Pointed FirsSarah Orne Jewett · 1896Literature