Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Sarah Orne Jewett: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Country of the Pointed Firs The Dunnet Landing Stories
- “The Queen’s Twin” (1899) “A Dunnet Shepherdess” (1899) “The Foreigner” (1900) “William’s Wedding” (1910)
Appendix A: Before The Country of the Pointed Firs: Precursors and Influences
- Sarah Orne Jewett, Preface to Deephaven (1893)
- Sarah Orne Jewett, Chapter Five, “The Captains,” from Deephaven (1893)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, “Aunt Roxy and Aunt Ruey,” Chapter Four of The Pearl of Orr’s Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)
Appendix B: Local Color Literature: Nineteenth-Century Formulations and Definitions
- William Dean Howells, “Editor’s Study” (1887)
- Hamlin Garland, “Local Color in Art” (1894)
- Bret Harte, “The Rise of the ‘Short Story’” (1899)
Appendix C: Selected Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett
- To Annie Fields (June 1885)
- From a letter to Annie Fields (12 October 1890)
- From a letter to Annie Fields (1899 or 1890)
- To Willa Sibert Cather (27 November 1908)
- To Willa Sibert Cather (13 December 1908)
Appendix D: Reviews of The Country of the Pointed Firs
- Overland Monthly (29 January 1897)
- Atlantic Monthly (February 1897)
- The Critic (13 February 1897)
- The Nation (15 April 1897)
- Alice Brown, Book Buyer (15 October 1897)
Appendix E: Profiles of Sarah Orne Jewett
- Anonymous, “Miss Jewett” (January 1894)
- Anonymous, “Pleasant Day With Miss Jewett” (August 1895)
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