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The tale of Demeter and Persephone, a central myth of Victorian womens culture, is used to interpret the life and work of a 19th-century Maine writer.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--Maine--History--19th century, National characteristics, American, in literature, Maine--In literature.
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1989
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PS2133.S54 1989eb
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813/.4
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Jewett, Sarah Orne,--1849-1909--Criticism and interpretation, Women and literature--Maine--History--19th century, National characteristics, American, in literature, Maine--In literature.
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Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone
Recipient of the University of New Hampshire Book Prize for 1988
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Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone
Sarah Way Sherman
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University Press of New England
Brandeis University Brown University Clark University University of Connecticut Dartmouth College University of New Hampshire University of Rhode Island Tufts University University of Vermont
1989 by the Trustees of the University of New Hampshire
All rights reserved. Except for brief quotation in critical articles or reviews, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For further information contact University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755.
Quotations from "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers" are reprinted from THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME, Poems Selected and New, 19501984, by Adrienne Rich, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1984 by Adrienne Rich. Copyright 1975, 1978 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright 1981 by Adrienne Rich.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, Sarah Way. Sarah Orne Jewett, an American Persephone. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Jewett, Sarah Orne, 18491909Criticism and interpretation, 2. Women in literature. I. Title. PS2133.S54 1989 813'.4 88-40353 ISBN 0-87451-477-0 ISBN 0-87451-484-3 (pbk.)
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To my grandmother, Peggy Sherman and to my parents, Joan and Skip Sherman
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Contents
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xi
1. Root-Bound: The Victorian Context
1
2. Mother Texts
16
3. Hearts and Rounds: Jewett in the Community of Women
46
4. Hearts and Rounds, Part 2
69
5. Honey from Ashes: Pastoral As Woman's Place
91
6. Deephaven: Ambivalence in Arcadia
118
7. Ascending Spiral
154
8. The Return
189
9. Sympathy Is of the Mind As Well As the Heart
225
10. Writing Life
256
Notes
275
Works Cited
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Index
327
Illustrations follow page 46
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Preface
Willa Cather once called The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) an American classic able to stand alongside Huckleberry Finn and The Scarlet Letter.1 Cather notwithstanding, Sarah Orne Jewett's Pointed Firs hasn't gotten that kind of recognition. It may be partly because it doesn't fit the pattern of most American classics, those novels that Nina Baym labeled "melodramas of beset manhood."2 There's no search for the father, no exploration of untracked wilderness, no hunt to kill the magical beast, let alone an easily discernible plot. Instead, an unmarried writer visits a tiny Maine fishing village, where she hopes to write a book in peace and quiet. Over the course of the summer she becomes intimately acquainted with her landlady, Mrs. Todd, a motherly widow who raises herbs and nurses her neighbors according to ancient remedies. This pastoral interlude closes with the summer itself. As the narrator leaves on her steamer for the city, she looks back over the water for a last glimpse of her friend.
The world described here is a simple one, virtually without conflict. The writer's solitary routine is punctuated by feminine rituals: tea parties, neighborly visits, confidential talks, and reminiscing. The grand event is a family reunion in which the anonymous narrator's adoption by Mrs. Todd is signified by their sharing of a sacramental gingerbread house. The narrator does not fall in love with the local doctoras the cover of one paperback edition seemed to suggest. In fact, there are no young men around at all, and the only romance is the gently sketched courtship of two people over sixty. Indeed, the primary bonds here are between womenmothers, daughters, cousins, and friends. The chapter describing William Blackett's wedding actually closes not with the married couple but with Mrs. Todd and the narrator watching them sail away, then walking home themselves, holding hands.
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