American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1020 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sarah Orne Jewett and the Maine Coast
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The idea
Born in South Berwick in eighteen forty-nine, Jewett rode with her doctor father on his country rounds, wanted to become a doctor herself, and was stopped by ill health. She read her way through his library instead and turned the coastal villages she knew into her subject.
In practice
A doctor's rounds, turned into fiction.
Where people slip
The medical ambition shaped her eye for people.
Your place on the trail
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