Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett is an American writer, novelist, poet, essayist, diarist and epistolic, born on September 3, 1849 in South Berwick, Maine, and died in the same city on June 24, 1909. Sarah Orne Jewett is the main figure of the American realistic style and that of regionalism, called "local color" of her works which have as their frame the East Coast of the United States, especially the State of Maine. With the publication of her poems and correspondence, Sarah Orne Jewett is one of the forerunners of American lesbian literature of the twentieth century. Her best-known works include his novel A White Heron, published in 1886, and his novel The Country of the Pointed Firs, published in 1896 and regularly reprinted in various languages.

Nobody knows exactly from when Sarah Orne Jewett started writing, she starts by writing poems it is little by little that she starts to prose. From the age of 14, his first poems and stories were published in the local press. It was when she was 18 that her new Jenny Garrow's Lovers was published in the weekly The Flag of Our Union under the pen name of A. C. Eliot, and it is not known whether it was written well before it was published. Sarah Orne Jewett emerged from the relative anonymity of the local press when, in December 1869, the Atlantic Monthly published her new Mr. Bruce for which she was paid $50. Publication followed by poems and short stories in various journals. The first chapter of his novel Deephaven was published by the Atlantic Monthly in September 1873 as short stories. It is through this last publication that Sarah Orne Jewett distinguishes herself from other writers notably by the review of the Nation.

Thanks to the advice of the literary critic of The Nation, William Dean Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett began collecting various published stories into a novel Deephaven. In 1874, Sarah Orne Jewett sent a first essay of her new The Shore House to the Nation's two leading editors, William Dean Howells and James Thomas Fields, both providing advice to strengthen her style. Shortly after the Nation published The Shore House, Sarah Orne Jewett was invited to the residences of William Dean Howells, one in Cambridge and the other in Belmont, Massachusetts.

William Dean Howells introduced Sarah Orne Jewett to New England cultural figures such as writers Charles Eliot Norton, Henry Longfellow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Charles Dudley Warner, Horace Scudder, Norwegian violinist Ole Bull and his wife Sarah and Mark Twain. All these personalities become friends of Sarah Orne Jewett, except Mark Twain. Horace Scudder, editor of the Riverside Magazine For Young People, published children's novels and historiettes by Sarah Orne Jewett until her retirement in 1871.