SARAH ORNE JEWETT: FURTHER READING

Bibliographies

Frost, John Eldridge. "Sarah Orne Jewett Bibliography: 1949-1963." Colby Library Quarterly 10 (June 1964): 405-17.

Offers a survey of criticism on Jewett published between 1949 and 1963.

Weber, Clara Carter, and Carl J. Weber. A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Sarah Orne Jewett. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1965, 105 p.

Contains a bibliography of Jewett's published writings.

Biographies

Blanchard, Paula. Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World and Her Work. New York: Perseus, 2002, 416 p.

Utilizes a feminist framework to review Jewett's life and work.

Cary, Richard. Sarah Orne Jewett. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1962, 175 p.

Provides a critical biography by a prominent Jewett scholar.

Matthiessen, Francis Otto. Sarah Orne Jewett. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929, 159 p.

Presents the first critical biography of Jewett.

Criticism

Anderson, Donald. "Jewett's 'Foreigner' in the Estranged Land of Almira Todd." Colby Quarterly 38, no. 4 (December 2002): 390-402.

Discusses the character and psychological state of the narrator in "The Foreigner."

Bishop, Ferman. "Sarah Orne Jewett's Ideas of Race." The New England Quarterly 30, no. 2 (June 1957): 243-49.

Contends that Jewett believed in the supremacy of the Nordic race.

Brown, Bill. "Regional Artifacts (The Life of Things in the Work of Sarah Orne Jewett)." American Literary History 14, no. 2 (summer 2002): 195-226.

Explores how objects are assigned a cultural value in Jewett's fiction.

Cary, Richard, ed. Introduction to Sarah Orne Jewett Letters, pp. 3-8. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1967.

Introduces Jewett's letters and examines what they reveal about her literary tastes.

——, ed. Sarah Orne Jewett: 29 Interpretive Essays. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1973, 305 p.

Collection of critical essays on Jewett's works.

Cather, Willa. "Miss Jewett." In Not Under Forty, pp. 76-95. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936.

Offers a character sketch in which Cather praises Jewett's literary style and notes that Jewett's writing conveys an intensely personal experience of life.

Church, Joseph. "Transgressive Daughters in Sarah Orne Jewett's Deephaven." Essays in Literature 20, no. 2 (fall 1993): 231-50.

Asserts that the stories in Deephaven are about women's psychological journeys of self-revelation.

——. "A Woman's Psychological Journey in 'The King of Folly Island.'" Essays in Literature 23, no. 2 (fall 1996): 234-50.

Contends that "The King of Folly Island" is an example of Jewett working toward greater understanding of the way in which culture and psychology contribute to a women's development.

——. "The Healing Arts of Jewett's A Country Doctor." Colby Quarterly 34, no. 2 (June 1998): 99-122.

Provides a psychological analysis of A Country Doctor in which Church argues that the novel mirrors Jewett's development as a writer.

Donovan, Josephine. "A Woman's Vision of Transcendence: A New Interpretation of the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett." The Massachusetts Review 21, no. 2 (summer 1980): 365-81.

Presents a new interpretation of several subjects, themes, and characteristics prominent in Jewett's fiction.

——. "Silence or Capitulation: Prepatriarchal 'Mothers' Gardens in Jewett and Freeman." Studies in Short Fiction 23, no. 1 (winter 1986): 43-8.

Offers a contemporary feminist reading of Jewett's "A White Heron" and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's "Evalina's Garden."

——. "Jewett on Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Imperialism." Colby Quarterly 38, no. 4 (December 2002): 403-16.

Refutes claims that Jewett's writing is racist, fascist, classicist, and proto-imperialist.

Hohmann, Marti. "Sarah Orne Jewett to Lillian M. Munger: Twenty-Three Letters." Colby Quarterly 22, no. 1 (March 1986): 28-35.

Examines Jewett's encouraging letters to a young woman from 1876 to 1882.

Howard, June, ed. New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, 123 p.

Contains a collection of previously unpublished essays on Jewett's best-known work.

Leder, Priscilla. "Living Ghosts and Women's Religion in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs. "In Haunting the House of Fiction: Feminist Perspectives on Ghost Stories by American Women, edited by Lynette Carpenter and Wendy K. Kolmar, pp. 26-40. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991.

Analyzes how Jewett appropriates the "male" ghost story and adventure narrative and uses them to her own purposes.

Nagel, Gwen L., ed. Critical Essays on Sarah Orne Jewett. Boston, Mass.: G. K. Hall & Co., 1984, 254 p.

Collection of critical essays, including an introduction with a detailed bibliographic survey of Jewett's scholarship, early reviews of Jewett's work, and seventeen full-length critical analyses, many dealing with feminist issues.

Pennell, Melissa McFarland. "A New Spiritual Biography: Domesticity and Sorority in the Fiction of Sarah Orne Jewett." Studies in American Fiction 18, no. 2 (autumn 1990): 193-206.

Examines Jewett's use of the theme of sisterhood in her stories as a means of stressing female heritage and tradition over patriarchal institutions.

Powell, Betty J. "Speaking to One Another: Narrative Unity in Sarah Orne Jewett's Old Friends and New." Colby Quarterly 34, no. 2 (June 1998): 150-71.

Explores the circuitous narrative strategy in Old Friends and New.

Pryse, Marjorie. "Women 'At Sea'; Feminist Realism in Sarah Orne Jewett's 'The Foreigner.'" American Literary Realism 15, no. 2 (autumn 1982): 244-52.

Identifies "foreigners" and "foreign" experiences in Jewett's story "The Foreigner."

——. "Archives of Female Friendship and the 'Way' Jewett Wrote." The New England Quarterly 66, no. 1 (March 1993): 47-66.

Examines Jewett's diaries and an unpublished holograph to understand how Jewett created fiction out of friendship.

Roman, Margaret. Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992, 245 p.

Argues that nearly all Jewett's work reveals her attempts to break free from patriarchal traditions and its dual norms for men and women.

Sherman, Sarah Way. Sarah Orne Jewett, An American Persephone. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1989, 333 p.

Traces the literary and religious tradition that Jewett used as a source in her fiction, focusing on the symbol of the Greek goddess Persephone.

Stevenson, Catherine Barnes. "The Double Consciousness of the Narrator in Sarah Orne Jewett's Fiction." Colby Library Quarterly 11, no. 1 (March 1975): 1-12.

Analyzes perceptions of Jewett's narrators in Deephaven, "A White Heron," and The Country of the Pointed Firs.

Swartz, Patti Capel. "We Do Not All Go Two by Two; or, Abandoning the Ark." In Jewett and Her Contemporaries: Reshaping the Canon, edited by Karen L. Kilcup and Thomas S. Edwards, pp. 265-76. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

Discusses the ways in which Jewett explored connections between people in her fiction; maintains that her work offers a map for those treasuring solitude despite also needing deep physical and spiritual relationships with others.

Westbrook, Perry D. "Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)." In Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook, edited by Denise D. Knight, pp. 270-80. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Provides an overview of Jewett's life, her major works and themes, and the critical response to her writing.

OTHER SOURCES FROM GALE:

Additional coverage of Jewett's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: American Writers; American Writers: The Classics, Vol. 2; American Writers Retrospective Supplement, Vol. 2; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 108, 127; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 71; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 12, 74, 221; Exploring Short Stories; Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; Modern American Women Writers; Novels for Students, Vol. 15; Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4; Reference Guide to Short Fiction, Ed. 2; Short Stories for Students, Vol. 4; Short Story Criticism, Vols. 6, 44; Something about the Author, Vol. 15; and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 22.