Sarah Orne Jewett
Subtitle: her world and her work
By: Paula Blanchard.
Series: Radcliffe biography series
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.; Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.; Women and literature -- Maine -- History -- 19th century.; Maine -- In literature.
Description: Paula Blanchard plunges us into the New England literary life of that time, into the circles of Henry James, Lowell, Howells, Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In chapters of interest to contemporary feminists, she also delves into Jewett's close relationship with women - from the young Willa Cather on whom she had a lasting influence, to the gifted artist and book designer Sarah Wyman Whitman and the flamboyant "Mrs. Jack" Gardner, and especially to Annie Fields, her partner in a sustaining "Boston marriage."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-388) and index.
"A Merloyd Lawrence book."