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Knowing the World So Well - A Profile of Sarah Orne Jewett.

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From: World and I
Date: 20000701
Author:SIMON, LINDA

Linda Simon is associate professor of English at Skidmore College.

Those familiar with nineteenth-century women writers are more likely to have read works by Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe than the novels and stories of Sarah Orne Jewett. Yet from 1868, when she published her first story in the Boston weekly The Flag of Our Union, until her death in 1909, she was impossible to ignore. Jewett was a productive and prolific writer; her fiction appeared regularly in periodicals including Atlantic and Harper's and in twenty volumes that ...

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