Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded The Country of the Pointed Firs, Jewett declared her "best story" to be A Marsh Island (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that...
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A Marsh Island has not fared well among Jewett's works. Critics have given it almost no attention at all. Except for Margaret Roman in Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, most of the few people who have reported reading it have seen it as one of Jewett's lesser works. Below...
A Marsh Island is a novel written by Sarah Orne Jewett, an American author known for her regionalist fiction. The story takes place in the late 19th century on a small island off the coast of Maine called Green Island. The island is home to a small community of fishermen and...
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