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Sarah Orne Jewett

Born

in South Berwick, Maine, The United States

September 03, 1849

Died

June 24, 1909

Website

http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewett.htm

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories

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Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for her local color works set in or near South Berwick, Maine, on the border of New Hampshire, which in her day was a declining New England seaport.

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Average rating: 3.79 · 14,762 ratings · 2,118 reviews · 460 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 4,751 ratings — published 1896 — 485 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Anita Shreve (Introduction) 3.87 avg rating — 2,853 ratings — published 1910 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Douglas Alvord (Illustrator) 3.66 avg rating — 2,348 ratings — published 1886 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Country Doctor 3.50 avg rating — 628 ratings — published 1884 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron and Other Stories 3.75 avg rating — 209 ratings — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deephaven 3.69 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 1877 — 135 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Novels and Stories: Deephaven / A Country Doctor / The Country of the Pointed Firs / Dunnet Landing Stories / Selected Stories and Sketches by Sarah Orne Jewett, Michael Davitt Bell (Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lady Ferry: A Ghost Story for Christmas 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Marsh Island 3.53 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1885 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A White Heron, and the Hiltons' Holiday 3.49 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

tags: write

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“The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett

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“It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

tags: conversation, noise, silence

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July 2026 Short Story/Novella Poll

The Reckoning by Edith Wharton

41 votes, 32.8%

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

19 votes, 15.2%

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber by Ernest Hemingway

18 votes, 14.4%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth

14 votes, 11.2%

The Foreigner by Sarah Orne Jewett

8 votes, 6.4%

Life of a Good-for-nothing by Joseph von Eichendorff

7 votes, 5.6%

Judas Iscariot and Others by Leonid Andreyev

7 votes, 5.6%

Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett

6 votes, 4.8%

Futility or the Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson

5 votes, 4.0%

Jean-Ah Poquelin by George Washington Cable

0 votes, 0.0%

125 total votes

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