Sarah Orne Jewett was born Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett in 1849 in Berwick, Maine to an upper-middle class New England family. Jewett was born in a colonial mansion purchased by her grandfather, a sea captain and merchant. Her father was a country doctor, and she contemplated a medical career. In 1850 she began her half-hearted elementary education at Miss Rayne's school, preferring to be outdoors instead of indoors learning. She finished high school in 1865 when she graduated from Berwick Academy, completing formal education. Jewett was raised with tons of books in and around her home, and after high school she began traveling and writing, supported by her grandfather's fortune.
Jewett published her first story in a Boston magazine in 1868, when she was 18 years old. Encouraged, she began submitting stories to children's magazines, as well as to The Atlantic, which published her story "Mr. Bruce," when she was 20. She published many more stories in The Atlantic about common people in Maine, and was encouraged to publish a collection of her sketches, which came out in 1877 as the novel/story collection Deephaven. She published a story collection the following year called Old Friends and New, followed by several more collections and novels. Jewett's best-known work, The Country of Pointed Firs, was published in 1896. She also published work under the pen names A. D. Eliot, Alice Eliot, and Sarah C. Sweet.
In 1878 the death of Jewett's father left her devastated. Annie Field's husband, publisher James T. Fields, died in 1880. The two women found their friendship deepened by their mutual losses, and their relationship rapidly evolved into a long-term union. Jewett and Annie Fields lived and traveled together for the rest of Jewett's life. With Mrs. Fields, Jewett formed friendships with a number of the major artists and intellectuals of her time.
On Sept 3, 1902, Jewett was in a serious a carriage wreck when their horse slipped on a loose rock and stumbled.
In "A White Heron," Sarah Orne Jewett describes the journey of a little girl and reminds the reader how it feels to have a sudden moment of revelation. To convey this universal idea, Jewett utilizes a chronological organization that moves from a challenge to a quest and finally to a moment of victory. ...
When we look at the stories we have read so far which like "The Story Of Avis" by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett and "The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, we can learn about women's opinions in this period. ... Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett expressed and explored the realities of women's lives after marriage in their fictions. ... In Jewett's story "A White Heron", the words that Sylvia can choose to utter to the hunter or withhold from him will determine her future and that of her natural worl...
Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron" is about Sylvia, a young city girl that comes to live with her grandmother on her farm in the country. ... Jewett uses Sylvia's reaction to people to show how timid and easily alarmed she becomes. ... Jewett also shows Sylvia's nurturing nature in how she reacts to the family cow. ... Jewett shows Sylvia's determination in many of her choices. ... Jewett shows Sylvia's conviction to her decision as she describes this small child making the seemingly impossible climb up the tree. ...
American writers, such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers and others have all experienced the approach of this theme in their short stories. ... At a different level, feminine identity is defined in American literature through the works of such writers as Mary Wilkins Freeman and Sarah Orne Jewett. ... Sarah's act of moving together with her children in the new barn in absence of her husband and even at the risk of being r...
The passage taken from Sarah Orne Jewett's "A White Heron," portrays a "small and hopeful" child, Sylvia, climbing to the top of a tree. ... Jewett creates the adventure to entertain the idea of growing up. Jewett begins this prose passage with the memory of childhood pastimes ending with becoming an adolescent reaching the ultimate goal in life, whatever that maybe for each person(s). Jewett creates the memory of childhood pastimes by creating the moment of intensity. ...
The short story "A White Heron" written by Sarah Orne Jewett is the story of a young girl and how she becomes her own person in a time when women were supposed to be loyal like dogs toward men. ... Jewett shows men as being proud and always in search of a prize, rather than companionship. ...
The short story "A White Heron" written by Sarah Orne Jewett is the story of a young girl and how she becomes her own person in a time when women were supposed to be loyal like dogs toward men. ... Jewett shows men as being proud and always in search of a prize, rather than companionship. ...
Sylvia Grows Up "A White Heron- by Sarah Orne Jewett, is a short story about a young girl's conflict between her love for nature and her desire to be liked by a handsome hunter. Sylvia, who grew up in town, goes to live with her grandmother in the woods. There she meets a young hunter, who ...
Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Luis Rodriguez, Kate Chopin , and Sarah Orne Jewett are all authors that address this "conflict of the heart" in their writings Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a perfect example of how one's heart and morals can change in difficult situations. ... In "A White Heron" by Sarah Orne Jewett a little girl named Sylvia also had to go through a struggle of the heart. ... Jewett shows that this decision was hard for Sylvia by displaying Sylvia's inside thoughts when she was going back and forth between her two choices; tell...
