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Sarah Orne Jewett

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born

September 03, 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, The United States

died

June 24, 1909

gender

female

website

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewett.htm

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

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Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.

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Books by Sarah Orne Jewett

Average rating: 3.68 · 1,828 ratings · 279 reviews · 88 distinct works

	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Anita Shreve (Introduction) 3.70 avg rating — 818 ratings — published 1920 — 23 editions	My rating:
	The Country of the Pointed Firs 3.64 avg rating — 472 ratings — published 1896 — 72 editions	My rating:
	A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.73 avg rating — 181 ratings — published 1990 — 10 editions	My rating:
	A Country Doctor 3.32 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1884 — 32 editions	My rating:
	Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	My rating:
	A White Heron and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Dover Thrift Editions 3.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Deephaven 3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1877 — 16 editions	My rating:
	Tales of New England 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Lady Ferry & Other Uncanny People by Sarah Orne Jewett, Deborah McMillion-Nering 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	The Night Before Thanksgiving, a White Heron: And Selected Stories (1914) by Sarah Orne Jewett, Katharine H. Shute (Introduction) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008 — 7 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

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“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. ”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

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“In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction

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