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The uncollected short stories of Sarah Orne Jewett / edited, with an introduction, by Richard Cary.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 2582
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--19th century--Fiction.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- New England--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- New England.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Cary, Richard, 1909-1990 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Humphry, James (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Humphry, Priscilla (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 394 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Waterville, Me. : Colby College Press, 1971.
- Contents:
- Jenny Garrow's lovers
- The girl with the cannon dresses
- The orchard's grandmother
- Paper roses
- Stolen pleasures
- Hallowell's pretty sister
- A guest at home
- A dark carpet
- The hare and the tortoise
- Miss Manning's minister
- The Becket girls' tree
- A visit next door
- A garden story
- A Christmas guest
- The Growtown "bugle"
- The new Methuselah
- Mrs. Parkins's Christmas eve
- A financial failure : the story of a New England wooing
- A way station
- Peg's little chair
- An every-day girl
- Peach-tree Joe
- Told in the tavern
- In a country practice
- A dark night
- An empty purse
- A change of heart
- A village patriot
- A pinch of salt
- The first Sunday in June
- The gray mills of Farley
- The Parshley celebration
- A landlocked sailor
- The stage tavern
- The foreigner
- Elleneen
- The green bonnet : a story of Easter day
- A born farmer
- The green bowl
- The honey tree
- The spur of the moment
- Sister Peacham's turn
- The lost turkey
- A spring Sunday.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 20th-century ms. gift inscription ("For Jem & Priscilla Humphry - To shake up a few nostalgic memories Dick Cary 12/1/71") in blue ink on front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 227485
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