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What common ambition is shared by the regional writings of Mary Austin, Mary Wilkins Freeman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Sarah Orne Jewett?
a. to represent the severe and repressed religious customs of New England
b. to encourage readers to see the world from a woman’s perspective
c. to depict and warn women about the dangers of the wilderness
d. to stress the universal plight of women in all regions of the country
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a. to represent the severe and repressed religious customs of New England
b. to encourage readers to see the world from a woman’s perspective
c. to depict and warn women about the dangers of the wilderness
d. to stress the universal plight of women in all regions of the country
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Sarah Orne Jewett
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born
September 03, 1849
died
June 24, 1909
gender
female
place of birth
South Berwick, Maine, The United States
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genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories
about this author
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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"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
— Sarah Orne Jewett
"'It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.' "
— Sarah Orne Jewett (A Country Doctor)
— Sarah Orne Jewett (A Country Doctor)
"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)
— Sarah Orne Jewett (The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Fiction)
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