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...
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A White Heron (category Short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett)
story by Sarah Orne Jewett. First published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company in 1886, it was soon collected as the title story in Jewett's anthology...
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The Sarah Orne Jewett House is a historic house museum at 5 Portland Street in South Berwick, Maine, United States. The house was designated a National...
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The Country of the Pointed Firs (category Short story collections by Sarah Orne Jewett)
The Country of the Pointed Firs is an 1896 book by American writer Sarah Orne Jewett. It is considered by some literary critics to be her finest work.[who...
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greatest pleasure. Her later years were spent as a companion to author Sarah Orne Jewett. Fields attended George B. Emerson's School for Young Ladies, Boston's...
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sentimental.: 110 One contemporary exception was Sarah Orne Jewett, who became Cather's friend and mentor. Jewett advised Cather of several things: to use female...
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A Country Doctor (novel) (category Works by Sarah Orne Jewett)
novel by American author Sarah Orne Jewett. The book, which was first published in 1884, was based on the relationship between Jewett and her physician father...
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actress Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), American novelist, short story writer and poet Sarah Anne Johnson (born 1976), Canadian artist Sarah Iles Johnston...
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also owns the Sarah Orne Jewett House, built in 1774 overlooking Central Square. Fogg Memorial at the Berwick Academy Sarah Orne Jewett House c. 1910...
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house. Acquired by preservationist friends of South Berwick native Sarah Orne Jewett at the turn of the 20th century, it is now a historic house museum...
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The Life of Nancy (category Short story collections by Sarah Orne Jewett)
collection of eleven short stories by Sarah Orne Jewett. Following in the tradition of "local color" fiction, Jewett's stories are defined by their detailed...
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18th-century England. In the U.S., a prominent example is that of novelist Sarah Orne Jewett and her companion Annie Adams Fields, widow of the editor of The Atlantic...
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association with the Jewett family, which included a prominent local businessman and a doctor, as well as the writer Sarah Orne Jewett, who was raised in...
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Harvard University Press, 1985, page 500. ISBN 978-0-674-20511-6. Sarah Orne Jewett, "A Summer Cruise in Search of an Appetite", Harper's new monthly...
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Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett, Lucy Larcom, and Celia Thaxter. He was especially influential on prose writings by Jewett, with whom he shared...
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by Sarah Wyman Whitman at Central Congregational Church". College of the Holy Cross website. "LETTERS: Sarah Wyman Whitman". The Sarah Orne Jewett Text...
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Yonder Sylvia, the protagonist in the short story A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett Sylvia Costas, Assistant District Attorney in the American television...
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about the region. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. The town...
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Robley Wilson Jr., E. B. White, J. F. Powers, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Sarah Orne Jewett, Frank Herbert, H. H. Munro, J. G. Ballard, Steven Scharder, Isaac...
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and H. P. Lovecraft, among others, before coming across the work of Sarah Orne Jewett, a novelist best known for her local color works set around the coast...
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Beecher Stowe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. Sarah Orne Jewett wrote "On Star Island" about her visit...
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great egret (Ardea alba modesta) "A White Heron", a short story by Sarah Orne Jewett This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title...
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composer (d. 1919) 1841 – Tom Emmett, English cricketer (d. 1904) 1849 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet (d. 1909) 1851 – Olga...
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thousand deaths of silence." Shortly after, she began a friendship with Sarah Orne Jewett, and the two became companions for the rest of their lives. In addition...
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novelists include John Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Louisa May Alcott, Sarah Orne Jewett, H. P. Lovecraft, Annie Proulx, Stephen King, Jack Kerouac, George...
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Member of Parliament Randolph Jewett (1602–1675), English organist Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909), American author Solomon Jewett and his brother Phil, American...
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fiction and nonfiction by the leading writers of the day, including Sarah Orne Jewett, Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Joel Chandler Harris, Jack London...
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Crane, Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Harold Frederic, Abraham Cahan, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. In 1902, Howells published The Flight of...
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Old Friends and New (category Short story collections by Sarah Orne Jewett)
Old Friends and New is a series of short stories written by Sarah Orne Jewett. It was published in The Atlantic Monthly in seven installments – one short...
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Passaconaway. In the 1881 essay A Winter Drive, Seacoast literary legend Sarah Orne Jewett remarked that "...I could never trace this legend beyond a story in...
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