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III. The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature. She was a novelist, poet, essayist, and short story writer. A country doctor's daughter, Jewett's experiences in accompanying her father on his calls had an important impressionable effect on the sensibility that later led her to write meaningful stories of New England character and experience. Anyone from another part of the United States, anyone from another part of the world who wants to understand New England would do well to read the stories of Sarah Orne Jewett.
Sarah Orne Jewett was born on September 3, 1849 in a small town called South Berwick, Maine. Her father was a distinguished country doctor who taught at Bowdoin College. Sarah'
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The regional sketches that William Dean Howell, editor of Atlantic Monthly, published his magazine were to become the bare bones of her finest novel, The Country of the Pointed Firs. I seem to get very bewildered while I try to make these come in for secondary parts.
Like other books dealing with a simple society, The Country of the Pointed Firs gains natural structure from its relaxed loyalty to the rhythms of natural life. This breakdown hardly affected Miss Jewett. In The Country of the Pointed Firs. Edited by Dedria Bryfonski and Phyllis Carmel Mendelson. At the moment, there is much to be gained from a study of her finely softened prose, which never strains for effects beyond its reach and always achieves a secure pattern of rhythm. According to Edward Garnett, "Miss Jewett's talent at its best is so quietly delicate, its spiritual aroma so subtle, that to come to it is like coming to one of the quiet beaches or woody hill-sides in Maine she so tenderly describes for us. Little did she know a few months later she was to be condemned semi-invalidism for the rest of her life and would never again have the strength to write more than a letter.
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