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Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women's issues of her time. Perhaps even more important, Jewett's perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight, convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style. A contemporary and friend of Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett is widely recognized as a pathfinder in American literary history, courageously pursuing a road less traveled that led the way for other women to follow.Product Identifiers
PublisherRandom House USA Inc
ISBN-139780553214987
eBay Product ID (ePID)103232644
Product Key Features
Book TitleA Country Doctor
AuthorSarah Orne Jewett
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year1999
Number of Pages304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height173mm
Item Width107mm
Item Weight159g
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Title_AuthorSarah Orne Jewett
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
