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Chronological List of the Works of Sarah Orne Jewett
NotesThe basis of this list is A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Sarah Orne Jewett, compiled by Clara Carter Weber and Carl J. Weber. Waterville, Maine: Colby College Press, 1949. It has been supplemented by independent work and from:
David Bonnell Green. "Sarah Orne Jewett's 'A Dark Night.'" The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
53: 331-34 (1959).
Richard Cary. "Some Bibliographical Ghosts of Sarah Orne Jewett." Colby Library Quarterly 8;3 (Sept. 1968) 139-145.These sources contain more detailed descriptions of some of the items, especially the books. This is intended to be as complete a listing as possible, providing an overview of Jewett's professional career, and to offer links to these items at the Sarah Orne Jewett text project.
Not included on this list are unpublished materials, though a number of these are included in the SOJ-TP. Most of these are letters and will be found with other letters at the site. Others are listed in the Alphabetical index.Items in blue print have not been collected for the SOJ Text Project. If you have access to a copy, please contact the site manager.
Also, this list is correctible. Please send additions and corrections to the site manager.
1868
JENNY GARROW'S LOVERS. (Written for the Flag of Our Union) by A. C. Eliot. The Flag of Our Union (23:46), Saturday, January 18, 1868. Published in Boston, Mass., by Elliott, Thomes, & Talbot. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE BABY-HOUSE FAMINE [poem]. By Alice Eliot. Our Young Folks (4:568), September 1868.
1869
MR. BRUCE. By A. C. Eliot. Atlantic Monthly (24:701-710), December 1869. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879.
1870
THE SHIPWRECKED BUTTONS. By Alice Eliot. Riverside Magazine (4:30-35), January 1870. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
IN A HURRY [poem]. By Sarah Jewett. Riverside Magazine (4:251), June 1870.
THE GIRL WITH THE CANNON DRESSES. By Sarah Jewett. Riverside Magazine (4:354-360), August 1870. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1871
THE SPENDTHRIFT DOLL [poem]. Merry's Museum (59:88-89), February 1871. Signed "Sarah O. Sweet" and so listed in the Table of Contents of the February issue, but corrected to "Sarah O. Jewett" in the Table of Contents for Volume 59. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
THE ORCHARD'S GRANDMOTHER. Merry's Museum (59:201-208), May 1871. With illustrations. Signed S. O. J. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971. Reprinted, with a few punctuation changes, as the opening story in Happy Days for Boys and Girls. Contributions by Louisa M. Alcott [et.al.]. Philadelphia : Porter & Coates, 1877, pp. 9-17.
FRIENDSHIP [poem]. The Cornucopia, published for the Strawberry Festival and Fair of the Congregational Church, South Berwick, ME., June 22, 1871. Published anonymously, this poem may be by Jewett, but this has not been confirmed.
THE HOUSE THAT RAN AWAY. The Independent (23:3), September 14, 1871.
HALF-DONE POLLY. The Independent (23:5), October 5, 1871. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
THE BOY WITH ONE SHOE. The Independent (23:3), December 14, 1871.
1872
THE YELLOW KITTEN. The Independent (24:9), June 6, 1872. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
THE BEST CHINA SAUCER. The Independent (24:3), July 25, 1872. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
DAYBREAK [poem]. The Independent (24:4), August 1, 1872.
GROWN-UP. The Independent (24:2), September 26, 1872.
DESERT ISLANDERS. The Independent (24:3), November 14, 1872. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
1873
THE KITTEN'S GHOST. The Independent (25:589-590), May 8, 1873. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
BIRDS' NESTS. The Tonic, Portland, Maine, June 11, 1873; page 3.
DOCTORS AND PATIENTS. The Tonic, Portland, Main, June 12, 1873; page 3.
PROTOPLASM AND HOUSE-CLEANING. The Tonic, Portland, Maine, June 17, 1873; page 3.
THE OLD DOLL [poem]. The Independent (25:933), July 24, 1873.
THE SHORE HOUSE. By S. O. Jewett. Atlantic Monthly (32:358-368), September 1873. Collected in Deephaven, 1877.
THE TURTLE CLUB. The Independent (25:1486-1487), November 27, 1873.
THE WATER DOLLY. St Nicholas (1:52-56), December 1873. Illustrated. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
1874
JAKE'S HOLIDAY. The Independent (26:13-14), February 19, 1874.
THE SPARROW'S MOURNERS [poem]. The Independent (26:15), May 21, 1874.
MISS SYDNEY'S FLOWERS. The Independent (26:1-4). July 16, 1874. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879.
THE LITTLE DOLL THAT LIED [poem]. St. Nicholas (1:595), August 1874. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
CARTRIDGES. The Independent (26:15), August 13, 1874.
MY FRIEND THE HOUSEKEEPER. St. Nicholas (1:650-653), September 1874. Illustrated by E.W. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
1875
PRISSY'S VISIT. The Independent (27:25-26), January 7, 1875. "Young and Old" section. Collected in Play Days. 1878
TAME INDIANS. The Independent (27:26), April 1, 1875. "Young and Old" section.
TOGETHER [poem]. Atlantic Monthly (35:590), May 1875. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
MARIGOLD HOUSE. St. Nicholas (2:571-575), July 1875. Illustrated, probably by Felix Octavius Carr Darley. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
DEEPHAVEN CRONIES. Atlantic Monthly (36:316-329), September 1875. Collected (rearranged) in Deephaven, 1877.
WOODCHUCKS. The Independent (27:25-26), September 16, 1875. "Young and Old" section. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
PATTY'S DULL CHRISTMAS. The Independent (27:25-27), December 23, 1875. "Young and Old" section. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
1876
DISCONTENT [poem]. St. Nicholas (3:247), February 1876. Illustrated. Collected in Play Days, 1878. Reprinted in Verses, 1916. Also in the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project is a copy of "the Benoit manuscript" of this poem.
THE PEPPER-OWL. St. Nicholas (3:492-496), June 1876. Illustrated. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
NANCY'S DOLL. The Independent (28:25-26), August 31, 1876. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
DEEPHAVEN EXCURSIONS. Atlantic Monthly (38:277-290), September 1876. Collected in Deephaven, 1877.
A LOST DOLL [poem]. The Independent (28:25), September 28, 1876.
1877
Deephaven [novel]. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.
1878
Play Days [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co.
A LATE SUPPER. Sunday Afternoon (1:55-64), January 1878. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879.
BEYOND THE TOLL-GATE. Sunday Afternoon (1:265-270), March 1878. Collected in Play Days, 1878.
A LOST LOVER. Atlantic Monthly (41:303-312), March 1878. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879. Reprinted in Tales of New England(1890).
A CURE FOR VAMPIRE WOMEN [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (545-6), April 1878, pp. 545-6. An anonymous piece possibly by Jewett.
PATTY'S LONG VACATION. The Independent (30:27-28), May 23, 1878.
VERSES [poem]. Sunday Afternoon (1:564), June 1878.
ONLY A DOLL [poem]. St. Nicholas (5:552), June 1878. Illustrated, probably by Jesse Curtis.
MATERIALS FOR AMERICAN FICTION [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (42:248-49), August 1878. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
TH. BENTZON [essay] Atlantic Monthly (774) December 1878. An anonymous piece possibly by Jewett.
1879
Old Friends and New [stories] Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co.
In an apparently pirated British edition of this collection appear two stories almost certainly not by Jewett, but available at the SOJ Text Project: A Brave Boy and Little Jimmy.LADY FERRY. First appeared in Old Friends and New (1879).
THEODORE HERMAN JEWETT, M.D. OF SOUTH BERWICK. Transactions of the Maine Medical Association, 1877-1879 (6: 680-684), Portland, 1879. Richard Cary attributes this obituary to Jewett.
PAPER ROSES. Sunday Afternoon (3:147-150), February 1879. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
DOMESTIC TOUCHES IN FICTION [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (43:396-97), March 1879. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
AT HOME FROM CHURCH [poem]. Sunday Afternoon (3:481), June 1879. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
A SORROWFUL GUEST. Sunday Afternoon (3:609-629), July 1879. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879.
A BIT OF SHORE LIFE. Atlantic Monthly (44:200-211), August 1879. Collected in Old Friends and New, 1879.
GOOD LUCK. Good Company (4:216-226), [December] 1879. Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
1880
A LITTLE TRAVELER. Good Company (4:543-546), March 1880. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
FLOWERS IN THE DARK [poem]. Atlantic Monthly (45:314), March 1880. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
VERSES FOR A LETTER [poem]. Atlantic Monthly (45:568), April 1880.
HALLOWELL'S PRETTY SISTER. Good Company (5:263-269), No. 9, 1880. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
CAKE CRUMBS. Wide Awake (10:331-336), June 1880. Illustrated by Miss L. B. Humphrey.
A NIGHT IN JUNE [poem]. The Christian Union (22:4), July 7, 1880.
AN AUTUMN HOLIDAY. Harper's Magazine (61:683-691), October 1880, with four illustrations by McCutcheon; one also signed by J. E. Sharp. In the manuscript this story was entitled "Miss Daniel Gunn." Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
TWO MORNINGS [poem]. Harper's Magazine (62:78), December 1880. Illustrated by A. F.
IN A CHRISTMAS LETTER [poem]. The American (1:167) [a weekly journal], Philadelphia, December 25, 1880.
STOLEN PLEASURES. Original publication source has not been identified. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1881
Country By-Ways [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A WINTER DRIVE. First published in Country By-Ways, 1881.
AN OCTOBER RIDE. First published in Country By-Ways, 1881.
TWO MUSICIANS [poem]. The American (1:270), Philadelphia, February 5, 1881.
ANDREW'S FORTUNE. Atlantic Monthly (48:20-39), July 1881. Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
SHELTERED [poem]. Harper's Magazine (63:444-446), August 1881.
A BIT OF FOOLISHNESS. Harper's Young People (2:635-637; 651-653), August 2 and 9, 1881. Illustrated by Thure De Thulstrup.
ON STAR ISLAND. [poem]. Harper's Magazine (63:550-551), September 1881. Illustrated by M.Y.T. or M.T. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
MISS BECKY'S PILGRIMAGE. The Independent (33:26-28), September 1, 1881. Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
RIVER DRIFTWOOD. Atlantic Monthly (48:500-510), October 1881. Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
THE SOUL OF THE SUNFLOWER [poem]. Scribner's Monthly (22:942), October 1881. Signed "Sara Jewett."
FROM A MOURNFUL VILLAGER. Atlantic Monthly (48:664-672), November 1881. Collected in Country By-Ways, 1881.
AT WAKING [poem]. The Sword and the Pen (No.7, page 1), December 14, 1881. The Sword and the Pen, "complete in ten numbers," edited by Horace P. Chandler, was published in Boston, December 7 to 17, 1881, for the Soldiers' Home Bazaar.
JACK'S MERRY CHRISTMAS. The Independent (33:31-32), December 15, 1881. Reprinted in The Maine Sentinel, January 2, 1883.
1882
GOOD SOCIETY NOVELS [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (49:136-38), January 1882. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER [poem]. Harper's Young People (3:194), January 24, 1882.
THE PLEA OF INSANITY [essay]. The Congregationalist (34 #2:1), January 11, 1882.
TOM'S HUSBAND. Atlantic Monthly (49:205-213), February 1882. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
MISSING [poem]. Harper's Magazine (64:499), March 1882.
A COLOR CURE [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (49:425-26), March 1882. An anonymous piece to which Jewett claimed authorship in a letter to John Greenleaf Whittier of 21 February 1882.
PLEASANT ROOMS [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (49:567-69), April 1882. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
WAITING [poem]. Our Continent (1:172), April 26, 1882. With etchings by W. T. Smedley.
LUCKY PEOPLE. The Congregationalist (34:149), May 3, 1882.
DEPLORABLE IMPROVEMENTS [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (49:856-67), June 1882. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
THE MATE OF THE DAYLIGHT. Atlantic Monthly (50:82-93), July 1882. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
WOODLAND MYSTERIES [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (49:136-38), July 1882. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
A GUEST AT HOME. The Congregationalist (34:399), November 29, 1882. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
AN AFTERNOON IN HOLLAND. The Atlantic Monthly (50:798-804), December 1882.
AFTER CHRISTMAS. The Independent (34:27-28), December 28, 1882.
1883
The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Weber & Weber list the copyright as 1883 -- as it appears in the book -- and publication as 1884 -- which appears on the title page. In their other references to the collection in this list, they date the book 1883.)
JACK'S MERRY CHRISTMAS. The Maine Sentinel (11:45), Biddeford, Maine, January 2, 1883. Reprinted from The Independent, 1881.
AN AUTUMN DRIVE. The Atlantic Monthly (51:135-6), January 1883. Possibly by Jewett.
A FRENCH COUNTRY GIRL [essay]. The Congregationalist (35:53), February 15, 1883.
THE EAGLE TREES. To J.G.W. [poem to John Greenleaf Whittier]. Harper's Magazine (66:608), March 1883.
A NEW PARISHONER. Atlantic Monthly (51:475-493), April 1883. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
A LANDLESS FARMER. Atlantic Monthly (51:627-637, 759-769), May and June, 1883. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
UNGATHERED FLOWERS [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (51:854-56), June 1883. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
KATY'S BIRTHDAY. Wide Awake (17:36-40), June 1883, with an illustration by Jessie McDermott. Reprinted in Katy's Birthday with Other Stories (Boston, 1883).
A LEAFLET [essay] The Atlantic Monthly (52:140-1), July 1883. Possibly by Jewett.
A DARK CARPET. The Congregationalist (35:246), July 19, 1883. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE. Atlantic Monthly (52:187-199), August 1883. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
MISS MANNING'S MINISTER. The Independent (35:1082-1084), August 23, 1883. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE CONFESSION OF A HOUSE-BREAKER [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (52:419-422), October 1883. Published anonymously in Atlantic and collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883.
PERSEVERENCE [poem]. St. Nicholas (10:840-841), September 1883, with an illustration by Rose Mueller. Reprinted in Verses 1916 as "A Four-Leaved Clover."
EVERY-DAY WORK [essay]. The Congregationalist (35:309), September 13, 1883. A passage from this essay was excerpted in Ladies' Home Journal, June 1889, p. 10.
TREE PLANTING [essay]. The Atlantic Monthly (52:574-75), October 1883. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
AN ONLY SON. Atlantic Monthly (52:664-678), November 1883. Collected in The Mate of the Daylight, 1883. Reprinted in Tales of New England, 1890.
DUNLUCE CASTLE [poem]. Harper's Magazine (67:924), November 1883. Illustrated by C. Graham. An altered version of the first three stanzas is reprinted under this title in Verses, 1916.
NATURE'S MUSIC. Atlantic Monthly (52: 850-1), December 1883. Possibly by Jewett.
A GOOD INHERITANCE [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (52:855-856), December 1883. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
THE CHRISTMAS EYES. The Christmas Traveller (No. III, back page), Boston, December 1883. [Only part of this text has been located. If you have access to the complete text, please contact the site manager.]
1884
A Country Doctor [novel]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
AN ADVENTURE [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (53:143-44), January 1884. Richard Cary attributes this anonymous piece to Jewett.
THE BECKET GIRLS' TREE. The Independent (36:27-29), January 3, 1884. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A VISIT NEXT DOOR. The Congregationalist (36:9), January 10, 1884. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE CHURCH MOUSE. Wide Awake (18:155-161), February 1884, with an illustration by W. L. Taylor. Reprinted in Plucky Boys, 1884.
WINTER FLIES [essay] Atlantic Monthly (53: 288-90), Feb. 1884. Possibly by Jewett.
A FARMER'S SORROW [poem]. The Manhattan Magazine (3:212-213), March 1884. Reprinted in The Exeter Newsletter (54:1), April 11, 1884.
THE NEWS FROM PETERSHAM. The Youth's Companion (57:130), April 3, 1884. Collected in A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886.
OAK GALLS [essay] Atlantic Monthly (53: 863-4), June 1884. Possibly by Jewett.
BUTTONS. The Independent (36:27-28), August 7, 1884.
MISDIRECTED ENERGY. The Congregationalist (36:333), October 9, 1884.
1885
FARMER FINCH. Harper's Magazine (70:198-211), January 1885. Collected in A White Heron, 1886.
A MARSH ISLAND. Atlantic Monthly (55:38-51, 145-160, 347-360, 452-466, 654-667, 773-790), January through June, 1885. Collected and published as a novel, 1885.
TOWN CLERKS. Wide Awake (In special volume “T” 13-15), Boston: D. Lothrop & Co.
A Marsh Island [novel]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
MARY AND MARTHA. The Christian Union (32:12-13), November 26, 1885. Collected in A White Heron and Other Stories, 1886.
1886
A White Heron and Other Stories. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A WHITE HERON. First appeared in A White Heron (1886). Reprinted in Tales of New England (1890).
THE GRAY MAN. First appeared in A White Heron (1886).
THREE FRIENDS. Good Cheer (4) January 1886 pp. 1-2; February 1886 pp. 1-2; March 1886, pp. 1-2.
THE DULHAM LADIES. Atlantic Monthly (57:455-462), April 1886. Collected in A White Heron, 1886. Reprinted in Tales of New England(1890).
MARSH ROSEMARY. Atlantic Monthly (57:590-601), May 1886. Collected in A White Heron, 1886. Reprinted in Tales of New England(1890).
YORK GARRISON, 1640 [poem]. Wide Awake (23: 18-22), June, 1886, illustrated by W. L. Taylor.
A GARDEN STORY. The Independent (38:932), July 22, 1886. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE TWO BROWNS. Atlantic Monthly (58:196-209), August 1886. Collected in A White Heron, 1886.
THE KING OF FOLLY ISLAND. Harper's Magazine (74:102-116), December 1886, with three illustrations, probably by Frederick Dielman. Collected in The King of Folly Island, 1888.
1887
The Story of the Normans [history]. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons.
A CHRISTMAS GUEST. Wide Awake (24:91-101), January 1887, with three illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE COURTING OF SISTER WISBY. Atlantic Monthly (59:577-586), May 1887; first place in this issue. Collected in The King of Folly Island, 1888. Reprinted in Tales of New England(1890) and in The Outlook in 1894.
A CAGED BIRD [poem]. Atlantic Monthly (59:816-817), June 1887. Reprinted in Verses, 1916.
MISS PECK'S PROMOTION. Scribner's Magazine (1:717-730), June 1887, with five illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Collected in The King of Folly Island,1888.
MY SCHOOL DAYS. The Berwick Scholar (I,i,1), October, 1887).
THE LANDSCAPE CHAMBER. Atlantic Monthly (60:603-613), November 1887. Collected in The King of Folly Island, 1888.
LAW LANE. Scribner's Magazine (2:725-742), December 1887, with eight illustrations by W. L. Taylor. Collected in The King of Folly Island, 1888. Reprinted in Tales of New England (1890).
1888
The King of Folly Island and Other People [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A VILLAGE SHOP. first appeared in The King of Folly Island (1888)
A CHILD'S GRAVE [poem]. First known to have appeared in an anthology, The Poets of Maine, compiled by George Bancroft Griffith (Portland, ME: Elwell, Pickard & Co., 1888, pp.742-3). But Weber and Weber indicate that the poem almost certainly was published earlier in a newspaper. Reprinted in Verses (1916).
THE WRONG SIDE OF CLUBS. Wide Awake (26:214-215), February 1888.
MISS TEMPY'S WATCHERS. Atlantic Monthly (61:289-295), March 1888; first place in this issue. Collected in The King of Folly Island. 1888. Reprinted in Tales of New England (1890).
MÈRE POCHETTE. Harper's Magazine (76:588-597), March 1888. Collected in The King of Folly Island, 1888.
A PLAYER QUEEN. America (1:6-8), July 28, 1888.
A PLEA FOR FRONT YARDS. The Fête (Vol. I, No. 1), August 21-22, 1888, Eliot Library Association, Eliot, Maine.
THE MISTRESS OF SYDENHAM PLANTATION. Atlantic Monthly (62:145-150), August 1888; first place in this issue. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
FAIR DAY. Scribner's Magazine (4:199-205), August 1888. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
THE GROWTOWN 'BUGLE.' Harper's Weekly (32: 610-11), August 18, 1888. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
NEW NEIGHBORS. Washington Post ((28 October, 1888, Section 14, p. 2). Reprinted by Katherine C. Aydelott in American Literary Realism (Spring 2004, v. 36, pp. 256-268).
1889
THE LUCK OF THE BOGANS. Scribner's Magazine (5:100-112), January 1889, with three illustrations by C. D. Gibson. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
A WINTER COURTSHIP. Atlantic Monthly (63:145-150), February 1889; first place in this issue. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
UNLEARNED LESSONS. The Berwick Scholar, (2, 6: 1-2), South Berwick, Maine, February 1889.
A BIT OF COLOR. St. Nicholas (16:456-463; 514-523; 572-580), April, May, and June, 1889, with illustrations by C. T. Hill. Later expanded and published in book form under the title Betty Leicester.
GOING TO SHREWSBURY. Atlantic Monthly (64:18-24), July 1889. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
DAN'S WIFE. Harper's Bazar (32:562, 563, 569), August 5, 1889. Also appeared in the Washington Post (p. 15), August 4, 1889, under the title, "Dan Parish's Will."
THE WHITE ROSE ROAD. Atlantic Monthly (64:353-360), September 1889. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
DOLLY FRANKLN'S DECISION. Boston Globe 24 November 1889, sec. 2. p. 5; An abbreviated version appeared in New York World 24 November 1889, p. 28, entitled "A Good Girl.". It is likely that this syndicated story appeared in number of other newspapers in the United States.
THE TAKING OF CAPTAIN BALL. Harper's Magazine (80:141-151), December 1889. Illustrated by Charles Stanley Reinhart. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
1890
Betty Leicester. A Story for Girls [novel]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Tales of New England [stories from previous collections]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (May 3, 1890, according to Richard Cary).
Strangers and Wayfarers [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (November 19, 1890, according to Richard Cary).
THE QUEST OF MR. TEABY. Atlantic Monthly (65:83-89), January 1890. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
THE NEW METHUSELAH. Scribner's Magazine (7:514-524), April 1890. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE TOWN POOR. Atlantic Monthly (66:71-78), July 1890. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890. Transferred in 1910 to Tales of New England.
BY THE MORNING BOAT. Atlantic Monthly (66:518-525), October 1890. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
IN DARK NEW ENGLAND DAYS. Century Magazine (40:911-920), October 1890, with four illustrations by E. W. Kemble. Collected in Strangers and Wayfarers, 1890.
MISS ESTHER'S GUEST. Far and Near (1:10-12), November 1890. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
DOLLY FRANKLIN'S DECISION. Boston Globe (Section 2, p. 5) November 24, 1889. Published the same day as "A Good Girl" in New York World (p. 28). Illustrated.
JIM'S LITTLE WOMAN. Harper's Magazine (82:100-110), December 1890. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
MRS. PARKIN'S CHRISTMAS EVE. Part I. Ladies' Home Journal (8:1-2), December 1890, with two illustrations. (Part II in January 1891). Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A FINANCIAL FAILURE; The Story of a New England Wooing. The Boston Sunday Globe, Boston, Mass., December 7, 1890, page 25; with five drawings and a portrait of Sarah Orne Jewett. Reprinted in Comfort for All, 1891. Kathrine Aydelott has located a reprinting in the Delphos, Ohio Daily Herald (12 January 1898). Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A WAY STATION. The Commercial Advertiser, Christmas Number Supplement (93: No. 65; pages not numbered), New York, Wednesday, December 17, 1890. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1891
MRS. PARKINS'S CHRISTMAS EVE. Part II. Ladies' Home Journal (8:5), January 1891, with illustration by W. L. Taylor. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
ENGLAND AFTER THE NORMAN CONQUEST. The Chautauquan (12:438-442, 574-578, 707-711), Meadville, Pa., January, February, and March, 1891.
THE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. The Berwick Scholar (Vol. 4), March 1891; Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine.
A NATIVE OF WINBY. Atlantic Monthly (67:609-620), May 1891. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
THE FAILURE OF DAVID BERRY. Harper's Magazine (83: 56-62), June 1891. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
PREFACE [essay]. A Memorial of the 100th Anniversary of the Founding of Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine. (pp. iii-viii), Cambridge: Riverside Press, July 1, 1891.
PEG'S LITTLE CHAIR. Wide Awake (33:204-214), August 1891, with illustrations by Edmund H. Garrett and H. D. Murphy. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A FINANCIAL FAILURE: The Story of a New England Wooing. Comfort for All (3:1-2), Augusta, Maine, September 1891; with four drawings. Reprinted from The Boston Sunday Globe, December 1890. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
READING FOR YOUNG WOMEN [a letter]. Chicago Weekly News, December 3, 1891: "From Noted Authors, Reading for Young Women." Letters from eight authors, including Sara Orne Jewett.
A LITTLE CAPTIVE MAID. Scribner's Magazine (10:743-759), December 1891, illustrated by Herbert Denman. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
A TRIBUTE TO WHITTIER ON HIS EIGHTY-FOURTH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. Boston Journal, December 12, 1891, page 5. Sarah Orne Jewett was one of many contributors to a page of tributes. Quoted in The Critic (16:336), December 12, 1891.
1892
LOOKING BACK ON GIRLHOOD. Youth's Companion (65:5-6), January 7, 1892. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
ABOUT HOSPITALITY. Decide on your own style and don't change your noon dinners for guests. The St. Louis Republic, Part 3, February 14, 1892; Our Woman's Page, page 25.
THE PASSING OF SISTER BARSETT. Cosmopolitan (13:59-65), May 1892, illustrated by Henry Sandham. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893. Translated into French and published in Revue des deus Mondes, 1894.
DECORATION DAY. Harper's Magazine (85:84-90), June 1892. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
AN EVERY-DAY GIRL. Ladies' Home Journal (9: June pp. 5-6, July pp. 7-8, August pp. 5-6), 1892. With illustrations by Alice Barber Stephens, and with textual decorations. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A CLUB FOR LITTLE HERCULES [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (427-8), September 1892. This anonymous essay may be by Jewett.
A MEMORY [essay]. Atlantic Monthly (717-19), November 1892. This anonymous essay may be by Jewett.
1893
A Native of Winby and Other Tales [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A CHILDREN'S HOME [essay]. Fame's Tribute to Children (Part 1, p. 46); published for the benefit of the Children's Home, World's Columbian Exposition, 1892. Second Edition: Chicago: Hayes & Co., 1893.
FROM VENICE TO ONE AT HOME. The Pilgrim Script (1: No. 2), January 1893; published by The Women's Rest Tour Association, Boston, Mass.
A WORD FROM A NEIGHBOR. The Artful Dodger (Volume I, Number 1), York Institute, Saco, Maine, January 25, 1893.
MRS. OSGOOD OF BAR MILLS. Portland Transcript (56:51), March 22, 1893. A personal sketch, beginning: "One of our Maine women has just died."
A PAINTER'S SNUG CORNER [anonymous essay] Atlantic Monthly (71:423-424) March 1892; in the "Contributor's Club." Possibly by Jewett.
AT THE FUNERAL OF PHILLIPS BROOKS [anonymous essay]. Atlantic Monthly (71:566-567), April 1893; in the "Contributors' Club."
A LONELY WORKER [essay]. Far and Near (3:109-110), April 1893.
BETWEEN MASS AND VESPERS. Scribner's Magazine (13:661-676), May 1893, illustrated by C. D. Gibson. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
HUMAN DOCUMENTS. Portraits of Distinguished People. Introduction by Sarah Orne Jewett. McClure's Magazine (1:16-18), June 1893. Reprinted in Human Documents: Portraits and Biographies of Eminent Men. New York: S. S. McClure, 1895.
PEACH-TREE JOE. The Californian Illustrated Magazine (4:187-191), July 1893. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
APPRECIATION THROUGH ENJOYMENT [anonymous essay]. Atlantic Monthly (72:141-143) July 1893, in "Contributor's Club." Possibly by Jewett.
THE FLIGHT OF BETSEY LANE. Scribner's Magazine (14:213-225), August 1893, illustrated by W. T. Smedley. Collected in A Native of Winby, 1893.
A BAROMETER OF GAYETY [anonymous essay]. Atlantic Monthly (72:283-284) August 1893, in "Contributor's Club." Possibly by Jewett.
THE HILTONS' HOLIDAY. Century Magazine (24:772-778), September 1893. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
A SECOND SPRING. Harper's Magazine (88:114-126), December 1893, with an illustration by W. H. Hyde. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
1894
Betty Leicester's English Xmas: A New Chapter of an Old Story [sequel to Betty Leicester]. Baltimore: Bryn Mawr School. (Privately printed).
THE ONLY ROSE. Atlantic Monthly (73:37-46), January 1894. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
THE GUESTS OF MRS. TIMMS. Century Magazine (47:575-581), February 1894. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
TOLD IN THE TAVERN. New York World, April 15, 1894, page 26, and also in Philadelphia Press, April 15, 1894. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE OLD TOWN OF BERWICK [essay]. New England Magazine (16 [new series 10]:585-609), July 1894; illustrated by Louis A. Holman.
THE COURTING OF SISTER WISBY. The Outlook (50:583-587), October 13, 1894; with a portrait of Sarah Orne Jewett. Reprinted from The King of Folly Island, 1888.
IN A COUNTRY PRACTICE. Augusta News, Augusta, Georgia, November 27 and 28, 1894, and also in Philadelphia Press, November 27-28, 1894. Illustrated. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A NEIGHBOR'S LANDMARK.: A WINTER STORY WITH A CHRISTMAS ENDING. Century Magazine (49:235-242), December 1894; illustrated by Irving R. Wiles. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
1895
The Life of Nancy [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
FOREWORD [essay]. Stories and Poems for Children by Celia Thaxter. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A WAR DEBT. Harper's Magazine (90:227-237), January 1895, with three illustrations by W. T. Smedley. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895. This story was extensively revised, especially the ending, between the magazine and book publication, and again for a second printing of the book.
THE LIFE OF NANCY. Atlantic Monthly (75:175-187), February 1895. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
FAME'S LITTLE DAY. Harper's Magazine (90:560-565), March 1895, with three illustrations by William Thomas Smedley. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
WHEN LADY: WHEN WOMAN: A CONSENSUS OF OPINION ON A PERPLEXING QUESTION [essay]. By Mrs. Margaret Deland, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Miss Sarah Orne Jewett. Ladies' Home Journal, April 1895, p. 4.
A DARK NIGHT. Philadelphia Press April 16-19, 1895. p. 11 each day. With drawings. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
ALL MY SAD CAPTAINS. Century Magazine (50:736-748), September 1895; illustrated by Eric Pape. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
A WILD ROSE [poem]. Chicago Times-Herald, September 7, 1895, page 6.
LITTLE FRENCH MARY. Philadelphia Press, June 2, 1895 and The Pocket Magazine (1:113-125), November 1895. Collected in The Life of Nancy, 1895.
THE NIGHT BEFORE THANKSGIVING. Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, November 16, 1895, page 12. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
BETTY LEICESTER'S ENGLISH CHRISTMAS. Part I. St. Nicholas (23:108-111), December 1895. reprinted from the Bryn Mawr book Betty Leicester's English Xmas, 1894.
AN EMPTY PURSE: A New England tale for Christmas and Holiday Time. Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, December 21, 1895, page 14; and Philadelphia Press, 21 December, 1895. It was also privately printed by Merrymount Press (Boston 1905). It was later collected in The Fireside Book of Yuletide Tales edited by Edward Wagenknecht (Bobbs Merrill, 1948, 172-179) and again in Richard Cary's Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett.
1896
PREFACE [essay]. The Poems of Celia Thaxter. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
BETTY LEICESTER'S ENGLISH CHRISTMAS. Parts II and III. St. Nicholas (23:225-232, 313-318), January and February 1896. Reprinted from the Bryn Mawr book Betty Leicester's English Xmas, 1894.
THE NEW-YEAR GUESTS / AUNT CYNTHY DALLETT. Harper's Bazar (29:29-31), January 11, 1896; illustrated by C. Carleton. Originally published under the title "The New-Year Guests," this story was collected as "Aunt Cynthy Dallett" in The Queen's Twin and Other Stories, 1899.
THE COUNTRY OF THE POINT FIRS. Atlantic Monthly (77:5-18, 302-312; 78:75-88, 352-366), January, March July, and September, 1896. Collected and published in book form under the same title, 1896.
The Country of the Pointed Firs [novel]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
A CHANGE OF HEART. Ladies Home Journal (13:4), April 1896. Decorated text. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A VILLAGE PATRIOT. Boston Evening Transcript, (July 3, 1896), 12. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971. Diana Ben-Aaron of the University of Helsinki located a copy in the New York Times of July 4, 1896. The story was again reprinted in The Pocket Magazine of July 1897, (IV,3, 133-143).
ALONG SHORE. Living Age (211, supplement:761-765), December 12, 1896. Quoted from The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1896 (Chapter XX).
1897
MARTHA'S LADY. Atlantic Monthly (80:523-533), October 1897. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
A PINCH OF SALT. Boston Evening Transcript (Part 2, page 14), October 30, 1897. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE FIRST SUNDAY IN JUNE. The Independent (49:1446-1447), November 4, 1897. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1898
THE GRAY MILLS OF FARLEY. The Cosmopolitan (25:183-196), June 1898; illustrated by Frank O. Small. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE COON DOG. Century Magazine (56:498-506), August 1898, with five illustrations by A. B. Frost. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
WHERE'S NORA? Scribner's Magazine (24:739-755), December 1898; illustrated by A. I. Keller. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
1899
Betty Leicester's Christmas [slightly revised reprint of 1894 story, Betty Leicester's English Xmas]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
The Queen's Twin and Other Stories [stories]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
THE QUEEN'S TWIN. Atlantic Monthly (83:235-246), February 1899. Also in Cornhill Magazine (n.s. 6:145-161), London, February 1899. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
BOLD WORDS AT THE BRIDGE. McClure's Magazine (12:508-514), April 1899; illustrated by Maude and Genevieve Cowles. Also in Cornhill Magazine (n.s. 6:489-496), London, April 1899. Also in The Gentlewoman, December 1899. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899.
THE PARSHLEY CELEBRATION. Youth's Companion (73:266-267), May 25, 1899; illustrated by Arthur Jule Goodman. Also in The Gentlewoman, December 1899. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A LANDLOCKED SAILOR. Lippincott's Magazine (64:753-764), November 1899.
A DUNNET SHEPHERDESS. Atlantic Monthly (84:754-764), December 1899. Collected in The Queen's Twin, 1899. Transferred in 1910 to The Country of the Pointed Firs.
1900
THE STAGE TAVERN. Youth's Companion (74:184-185), April 12, 1900. Illustrated by Margaret Eckerson. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE FOREIGNER. Atlantic Monthly (86:152-167), August 1900. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE TORY LOVER. Atlantic Monthly (86:590-606, 738-754), November and December, 1900; the first two of ten installments. Collected with the other eight in The Tory Lover, 1901.
1901
THE TORY LOVER. Atlantic Monthly (87:90-104, 180-194, 373-389, 539-556, 645-666, 801-817; 88:66-85, 179-196), January through August, 1901. Collected and published in book form under the same title, 1901.
The Tory Lover [novel ]. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
Among the reprints is one under another title: The Yankee Ranger. New York: Leisure Books, 1975.
Gary Egloff pointed this out.ELLENEEN. McClure's Magazine (16:335-338), February 1901; illustrated by G. A. Cowles. Also in The Idler (20:177-180), London , September 1901. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE QUEEN'S TWIN. The Outlook (67:455-459), February 23, 1901. Reprinted from The Queen's Twin, 1899.
THE GREEN BONNET: A story of Easter Day. Youth's Companion (75:169-170), April 4, 1901. Illustrated by Clifford Carleton. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A BORN FARMER. McClure's Magazine (17:164-171), June 1901; illustrated by Bertha C. Day. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE OATH. Living Age (231:61-65), October 5, 1901. One chapter reprinted from the The Tory Lover, 1901.
THE GREEN BOWL. New York Herald (Section 5: pages 13 and 15), Sunday, November 3, 1901; published anonymously. This was the "Ninth Story in the $1000 Guessing Contest," later published in A House Party, 1901. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE HONEY TREE. Harper's Magazine (104:45-50), December 1901. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1902
THE SPUR OF THE MOMENT. The Outlook (70:59-63), January 4, 1902. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
A PLEA FOR FRONT YARDS. The Cornhill Booklet (3:4-7), Boston, Alfred Bartlett, pub., Autumn 1902. Reprinted from The Fête, 1888.
SISTER PEACHAM'S TURN. Harper's Magazine (105:902-906), November 1902. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
THE LOST TURKEY. Youth's Companion (76:609-610), November 27, 1902, with an illustration by S. Werner. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1903
COUNTED OUT. Youth's Companion (77:646-647), December 24, 1903, with an illustration by W. F. Stecher.
1904
A SPRING SUNDAY. McClure's Magazine (23:13-19), May 1904; illustrated by Margaret Eckerson. Collected in Richard Cary, Uncollected Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1971.
1905
An Empty Purse. A Christmas Story. Boston: The Merrymount Press (Privately reprinted from December 1895).
1907
EDITORIAL NOTE [essay]. Unsigned (pp. v-viii). Letters of Sarah Wyman Whitman, Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1907.
1908
THE GLOUCESTER MOTHER [poem]. McClure's Magazine (31:703), October 1908; illustrated by W. T. Benda. Reprinted the New York Times Saturday Review of Books (17 October 1908, p. 1) and in Verses, 1916.
1910
WILLIAM'S WEDDING. Atlantic Monthly (106:33-40), July 1910.
1911
LETTERS OF SARAH ORNE JEWETT. Edited by Annie Fields. Houghton, Mifflin.
1916
VERSES. Boston: PRINTED FOR HER FRIENDS, 1916
Clara and Carl Weber explain that this posthumous selection of Jewett's poems was prepared by Mark A. DeWolfe Howe and printed by D. B. Updike, the Merrymount Press, Boston.CONTENTS
To My Father: I
To My Father: II
Assurance
The Gloucester Mother
Flowers in the Dark
Boat Song**
Top of the Hill
At Home From Church
Together
A Caged Bird
Star Island
The Widow's House
Dunluce Castle
Discontent
A Four-Leaved Clover
A Child's Grave
The Spendthrift Doll
The Little Doll That Lied
The Fallen OakNote
"Boat Song" was set to music, apparently by Richard Hoffman (1813-1909), and published by G. Schirmer of New York in 1879. However, a copy of this setting has not been located. See John Austin Parker, "Sarah Orne Jewett's 'Boat Song.'" American Literature 23:1 (March 1951) 133-136. To find a copy and present it as part of the SOJ Text Project would be good. Assistance would be appreciated.1967
SARAH ORNE JEWETT LETTERS. Edited by Richard Cary. Colby College Press.
A Selection of Translations
Provided by Josephine DonovanSarah Orne Jewett, Das Land der spitzen Tannen, trans. Elisabeth Schnack. Zurich: Manesse Verlag, 1961. [The Country of the Pointed Firs]
Sarah Orne Jewett, Le Pays des sapins pointus, trans. Cécile Roudeau. Paris: Editions Rue d'Ulm, 2004. [The Country of the Pointed Firs]
Sarah Orne Jewett, Le Roman de la femme médecin, trans. Marie-Thérèse Bentzon. Paris: J. Hetzel, 1890. [A Country Doctor]
Sarah Orne Jewett, Le Roman d'un loyaliste, trans. Marie-Thérèse Bentzon. Paris: Hachette, 1906. [The Tory Lover]
Sarah Orne Jewett, "Le Héron blanc," adapt. Didier Debord. Paris: Gründ, 1999. ["A White Heron"]
Items found in Jewett's papers, but not in print. (Notes by Weber & Weber) CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIDENTIFIED PERIODICALS
Items in blue type have not been located. Help is welcome.JUNE BEETLES. Miss Jewett's own copy carries, in her autograph, the date August 1872, but we have been unable to identify the magazine.
A DAY'S SECRET [poem]. Unidentified magazine, Vol. 23, No. 4. Date?
WAITING AT FOURSCORE [poem]. If Whittier was the subject of this poem, the date 1887 may be surmised for its appearance in some unidentified magazine or newspaper.
BEDROOM BOOKSHELVES: Suggestions for Entertaining Guests. Published in the Household Department of an unidentified newspaper, November 21, 18??. (Compare the St. Louis Republic, February 14, 1892.)
Web Sites & Other Secondary Resources
Web Sites I am not in a position to monitor these sites to be sure they continue in operation. If you find that a link does not work, or if you create or find a site that should be listed, feel free to tell me, though I cannot promise that all sites I learn about will be listed here. (theller at coe dot edu)
Biographical materials
Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project: http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/bio/bio-cont.html
Information and essays
Domestic Goddesses: http://www.womenwriters.net/domesticgoddess/index.html
Dr. Donna Campbell at Washington State University: http://www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/jewett.htm
The Sarah Orne Jewett Journal: http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/ess/ess-cont.htm
Jewett's home in South Berwick, ME
Historic New England: http://spnea.org/visit/homes/jewett.htm
Old Berwick Historical Society: http://www.obhs.net/index.html
This web site includes some Jewett texts and much information relevant to studying Jewett and her work.
See especially: http://www.obhs.net/History1.html
And also the historical tour of South Berwick: http://www.obhs.net/TourIntro.html
Secondary Resources
The following sources are useful and widely available in libraries, but not all are equally reliable. If you are aware of items that should be added to this list, please contact the site manager.
Biographies
Paula Blanchard, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1994.
John E. Frost, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1960.
F. O. Mathiessen, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1929.
Elizabeth Silverthorne, Sarah Orne Jewett: A Writer's Life, 1993.Judith A. Roman, Annie Adams Fields: The Spirit of Charles Street, 1990.
Books on Jewett
Richard Cary, Appreciation of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1973.
---. Sarah Orne Jewett, 1962.
Willa Cather, Not Under Forty, 1936.
Joseph Church, Transcendent Daughters in Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1994
Robert Gale, A Sarah Orne Jewett Companion, 1999
Josephine Donovan, Sarah Orne Jewett, 1980.
New revised edition available from Cybereditions (www.cybereditions.com).
June Howard, New Essays on The Country of the Pointed Firs, 1994.
Kilcup, Karen and Thomas Edwards, Jewett and her Contemporaries, 1999.
M. S. Mobley, Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison, 1991.
Jack Morgan and Louis Renza, The Irish Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1996.
Jane Morrison, Master Smart Woman (photographs), 1987.
Gwen Nagel, ed. Critical Essays on Sarah Orne Jewett, 1984.
Gwen and James Nagel, ed. Sarah Orne Jewett: A Reference Guide, 1978.
Margaret Roman, Sarah Orne Jewett: Reconstructing Gender, 1992.
Sherman, Sarah W. Sarah Orne Jewett: An American Persephone, 1989.
Clara and Carl J. Weber, A Bibliography of the Published Writings of Sarah Orne Jewett, 1949
Other Useful Sources
Old Berwick Historical Society, The Placenames of South Berwick, 2007.
For sale via the OBHS website -- see above.