Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-06-25
Sarah 0rne Jeweh Dies
At South Berwick Home .
One Of the Foremost OF AneTI-
cas- Woman Writer'S.
Author Of Many Volumes and Con.
trIbutor to Many Magazines.

South Berwick, Me. June 24.-An illness
lasting many months ended tonight in
the death of Miss Sarah Orne Jewett.
Lift d., author of many books and re-
garded as one of the foremost woman
writer's of America. Since last March
Mss Jewett has been at her old home
here. where for many years she had been
accustomed to pass her summers, and it
GAO this evening. She was sufferer
from apoplexy and paralysis.
1t was while living in Boston early In
the present year. at the residence OF her
friend Mrs James r. Fields, widow of
a famous Boston publisher and herself
authoress of various books, that Miss
Jewett was stricken with the disease
which proved fatal. She had an attack
of apopleXy which caused paralysis of one
side of her body. and although her mind
remained clear she became nearly helpless
physically. Miss Jewett remained at Mrs.
Fields home, 14S Charles street. Boston.
until March last, when she was brought
to her ancestral residence here in spe-
cial car Under the care of her sister,
Miss Mary r. JeWett, and a corps OF
be moved about the house in a wheel
chair and to receive her friends. while
she continued to devote much of her time
to reading and study. 1t was not until
last Monday that her illness assumed a
critical form and she became confined tc
her room. Since that time she has been
failing steadily and her friends know that
the end was not far off. 1t is believed
that another attack of the brain hemor-
rhage from which she first suffered was
the immediate cause of death.
The house where Miss Jewett was borr
on Sept. 3, 1S49, has been the home OF
the Jewett family since 1910 1t is a fine
old colonial mansion and has welcomed
within its DOORS many of the literary
celebrities of this country and Europe
Miss Jewett was the daughter of DR.
Theodore H. and caroline F. perry Jew
EFT. She was educated at Berwick Acad
envy in the neighboring town of Berwick
Her first literary venture was Deep
haven" published in 1877. This was fol
lowed by play Days" "Old Friends ant
New" Country By-Ways," "A Country
| Doctor "A Marsh Island, THE Story Of
| the Normans' and many others, her las
| book being The Tory Lover" published
| in 1901. Miss Jewett was contributor
| besides to many magazines. She hat
| travelled extensively in this country an(
| in Europe and had a wide acquaintnct
| among literary people. She was mem
Der of the Mayf1ower Club of Boston ant
the Lyceum of London.
| Much of Miss Jewett's material for he
books was drawn from her home towr
of South Berwick people. The story which
was her own favorite was THE Countr.
| Doctor which was a tribute to the ca
| reer Of her father, who was for many
years a practitioner beloved by hundreds
of grateful patients in this and neighbor
ing towns.
In 1901 Miss Jewett received the degree
of Doctor Of Letters from Bowdoin Col
lege and she was one of the two women t.
whom that institution ever conferred tn,
honor of degree. Her sister, Miss Mary
| f. Jewett. and her nephey, DIR. Thee
dore Jewett Eastman of 800 Dartmouth
street. Boston, are her only surviving
relatives.