Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work

by Paula Blanchard

Book Overview

Best known for her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our time. Our fascination with place, with traditional values, and our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewett's portrayal of the "grand and simple lives" of coastal Maine. In this delicious portrait, Paula Blanchard (biographer of Margaret Fuller and Emily Carr) plunges us into New England literary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201489341
• ISBN13: 9780201489347
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"