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A country doctor / Sarah Orne Jewett ; edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick Wegener.
LIBRA PS2132 .C63 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Series:
- Penguin classics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women medical students--Fiction.
- Women medical students.
- Women physicians--Fiction.
- Women physicians.
- Country life--Fiction.
- Country life.
- New England--Fiction.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Pastoral fiction.
- Medical novels.
- Physical Description:
- xlvi, 271 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
- Summary:
- As the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie, young Nan Prince becomes interested in medicine. But when she enters a medical college, she finds she must choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the expectations of society and her duty to her true self. In part an homage to Sarah Orne Jewett's beloved father, A Country Doctor portrays an America on the verge of change and Nan, ultimately, as a courageous young woman with a new world opening to her.
- This edition, which reproduces the obituary of her father that Jewett wrote but published anonymously, includes an introduction exploring the rise of women doctors in nineteenth-century America and showing A Country Doctor as a pioneering narrative of a woman passionately following her professional calling.
- Contents:
- I The Last Mile 3
- II The Farm-House Kitchen 6
- III At Jake and Martin's 15
- IV Life and Death 24
- V A Sunday Visit 32
- VI In Summer Weather 40
- VII For the Years to Come 49
- VIII A Great Change 54
- IX At Dr. Leslie's 62
- X Across the Street 80
- XI New Outlooks 99
- XII Against the Wind 105
- XIII A Straight Course 123
- XIV Miss Prince of Dunport 132
- XV Hostess and Guest 145
- XVI A June Sunday 157
- XVII By the River 167
- XVIII A Serious Tea-Drinking 179
- XIX Friend and Lover 192
- XX Ashore and Afloat 207
- XXI At Home Again 220
- Appendix "Theodore Herman Jewett, M.D., of South Berwick" 265.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxxix]-xliii).
- ISBN:
- 0143039261
- OCLC:
- 56632096
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