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Sarah Orne Jewett

1849 - 1909

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Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Orne Jewett has received more than 332,831 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Sarah Orne Jewett is the 5,812th most popular writer, the 9,056th most popular biography from United States and the 689th most popular American Writer.

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Notable Works

A country doctor
Fiction, Women physicians in fiction, Women medical students in fiction
Sarah Orne Jewett's pioneering novel about the making of a woman doctor in nineteenth-century New EnglandA hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett's story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she becomes his protegee. But when she enters medical college, she realizes that she will have to choose between marriage and her career, between the demands of her society and her obligations to her true self. Inspired by Jewett's own interests and by her father, A Country Doctor portrays a world very much in flux and Nan, ultimately, as a woman with a new world opening to her.First time in Penguin Classics
1884
Country of the Pointed Firs
1927
Deephaven
Social life and customs, Fiction
1877
Tales of New England
Fiction, Social life and customs, New England in fiction
1890
The country of the pointed firs
Fiction, Summer resorts, Women authors
There was something about the coast town of Dunnet which made it seem more attractive than other maritime villages of eastern Maine. Perhaps it was the simple fact of acquaintance with that neighborhood which made it so attaching, and gave such interest to the rocky shore and dark woods, and the few houses which seemed to be securely wedged and tree-nailed in among the ledges by the Landing. These houses made the most of their seaward view, and there was a gayety and determined floweriness in their bits of garden ground; the small-paned high windows in the peaks of their steep gables were like knowing eyes that watched the harbor and the far sea-line beyond, or looked northward all along the shore and its background of spruces and balsam firs.
1896
Marsh Island
1885

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks 5,812 out of 7,302. Before her are Édouard Pailleron, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Caterina Davinio, John Masefield, Gaspar Núñez de Arce, and Simon Sebag Montefiore. After her are Arantxa Urretabizkaia, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Vítězslav Hálek, Vigdis Hjorth, and Thomas Linacre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks 106. Before her are Princess Marie of Hanover, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Horace Lamb, William R. Day, and August Palm. After her are Edmund Gosse, Aston Webb, Victor Bruce, 9th Earl of Elgin, Edwin Lord Weeks, Sarat Chandra Das, and Henrietta Edwards. Among people deceased in 1909, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks 94. Before her are Carl Bolle, Clorinda Matto de Turner, Petre S. Aurelian, Peter Lesgaft, Francis Marion Crawford, and Lina Morgenstern. After her are Mary MacKillop, João Barbosa Rodrigues, Oliver Otis Howard, Bertha Townsend, and Edward Everett Hale.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks 9,056 out of 20,380. Before her are John Hopfield (1933), Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (1959), John Patitucci (1959), Virginia Pearson (1886), Gerrit Smith Miller (1869), and T. R. Knight (1973). After her are Ray Mercer (1961), Jerry Sanders (1936), Randy Pausch (1960), Herman Glass (1880), Brad Garrett (1960), and D. A. Pennebaker (1925).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Sarah Orne Jewett ranks 689. Before her are Diana Der Hovanessian (1934), Daniel Pearl (1963), Steven Saylor (1956), Avram Davidson (1923), Edward Abbey (1927), and Iris Chang (1968). After her are Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), Ann Bannon (1932), Carol Shields (1935), Bess Meredyth (1890), Chaz Bono (1969), and M. Scott Peck (1936).

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