Thesis: Sarah Orne Jewett, a native of Maine, was one of the first and most skilled members of the local color movement in literature.
            
             I. The Life of Sarah Orne Jewett
             A. Looking Back
             B. The rise and fall
             II. Jewett's Style of Writing
             A. Why write?
             B. Style of Writing
             C. How it affects today's literature
             III. The Country of the Pointed Firs
             A. The people and places
             B. Simple society
             C. A triumph of style
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
             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's real education came from her father's library and even more from the trips she took with him to see his patients in the country. "These trips resulted in an intimate knowledge of the Maine countryside and its people, and an attachment to her father which was so strong that it precluded any emotional relationship to any other man," (Kunitz 418). Although she was a beautiful woman, she never fell in love or inspired love. She never realized how much of her life had been taken away by the father she adored.
             Sarah's older sister encouraged her to send in her first story to a magazine, Riverside, under the pen name Alice C. Elliot. In 1869, at the age of nineteen, the Atlantic Monthly published the fir...