Best known for her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (18491909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our time. Our fascination with place, with traditional values, and our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewett's portrayal of the grand and simple lives” of coastal Maine. In this delicious portrait, Paula Blanchard (biographer of Margaret Fuller and Emily Carr) plunges us into New England literary life in turn-of-the-century Boston, into the circles of Henry James, Lowell, Howells, Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She delves into Jewett's close friendships with women, from the young Willa Cather and the flamboyant Mrs. Jack” Gardner, and especially to Annie Fields, her partner in a sustaining Boston marriage.” Her enthralling and insightful glimpses into Jewett's fiction will send readers racing back to a writer of whose work Kipling said It is the very life.”

Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Blanchard, Paula

Literature & Fiction

Da Capo Press

Paula Blanchard plunges us into the New England literary life of that time, into the circles of Henry James, Lowell, Howells, Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. In chapters of interest to contemporary feminists, she also delves into Jewett's close relationship with women - from the young Willa Cather on whom she had a lasting influence, to the gifted artist and book designer Sarah Wyman Whitman and the flamboyant "Mrs. Jack" Gardner, and especially to Annie Fields, her partner in a sustaining "Boston marriage."

History

Emily Carr was one of Canadas most gifted painters and writers. Born in colonial Victoria, British Columbia, in 1871, she showed an early  desire to commit her life to art, and before she was twenty had persuaded her family to allow her to attend art school. Study in San Francisco, London and Paris followed, but her heart never left the British Columbia coast, which remained the strongest influence on her life and work.Fiercely independent and defiantly individualistic, she was considered an eccentric by the society around her. Working largely in isolation, without the example of strong women artists to look to, and years ahead of the art of her time and place, Carr demolished some traditionally cherished notions about women artists.

The Life of Emily Carr

Arts & Photography

Univ of Washington Pr

A sympathetic portrait of one of Canada's gifted writers and visual artists. 331p. Index. Illustrated in B/W. Bibliography.

Biographies & Memoirs

Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Traces the life of the nineteenth-century American writer from her New England childhood to her involvement in the revolution in Italy and her affair with Ossoli

Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to revolution (Radcliffe biography series)

Community & Culture

Delacorte Press, New York

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) was America's first true feminist, the first to confront publicly the conflicts in a woman's life: intellect vs. emotion, woman vs. artist, family vs. career. Transcendentalist, distinguished literary critic, journalist and teacher, she was a friend and colleague of Emerson, Thoreau, Horace Greeley, Carlyle, and Mazzini.She appeared to have sacrificed a private life to her career until, during her explosive "Roman Years," she took an aristocratic lover and bore a child before their marriage. In the words of Carolyn Heilbrun, who wrote the foreword, "This fine and moving biography [provides] those who came after her with an example for their lives."

Margaret Fuller From Transcendentalism T

Bantam/Doubleday/Dell

Best known for her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our time. Our fascination with place, with traditional values, and our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewett's portrayal of the "grand and simple lives" of coastal Maine. In this delicious portrait, Paula Blanchard (biographer of Margaret Fuller and Emily Carr) plunges us into New England literary life in turn-of-the-century Boston, into the circles of Henry James, Lowell, Howell, Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. She delves into Jewett's close friendships with women, from the young Willa Cather and the flamboyant "Mrs. Jack" Gardner, and especially to Annie Fields, her partner in a sustaining "Boston marriage." Her enthralling and insightful glimpses into Jewett's fiction will send readers racing back to a writer of whose work Kipling said "it is the very life."

Douglas&McIntyre

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Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work (Radcliffe Biography Series)

Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work (Radcliffe Biography Series)

The Life of Emily Carr

The Life of Emily Carr

Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to revolution (Radcliffe biography series)

Margaret Fuller From Transcendentalism T

Sarah Orne Jewett: Her World And Her Work (Radcliffe Biography Series)

The Life of Emily Carr

The Life of Emily Carr