Jewett, Sarah Orne

Sarah Orne (1849-), an American novelist and writer of short stories. She was born in South Berwick, Maine, and began contributing to the Atlantic Monthly when about twenty years of age. Among her books may be mentioned: Deephaven, Country Byways, A Marsh Island, A Country Doctor, Betty Leicester, The Story of the Normans, The Life of Nancy, Betty Leicester's Christmas, and The Country of the Pointed Firs. Her stories are delicately drawn pictures of New England. "Her books are alive with the fragrance of the woods, the murmur of pines, the lilt of the ebbing tide in the lush sea grass, and the simple occupations of homely country folk."