Beginning her writing career in her early teens, Jewett wrote primarily about provincial life and her surroundings in Maine. She produced three novels, A Country Doctor (1884), A Marsh Island (1885) and The Tory Lover (1901), although none of these achieved great success. Her finest work is probably The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), which contains sketches of the people of Maine. In 1901, she received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College, the first woman to do so. Following a disabling accident in 1902, Jewett never wrote again. An edition of her verses was published posthumously in 1916. |
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