Jewett Bibliography

Find here a list of Jewett's bibliography, along with a list of recent publications on or related to Sarah Orne Jewett. An longer list of scholarship can be found at The Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project.

Primary Texts

Click here to access the exhaustive chronological bibliography of Jewett's writings on the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project.

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New Scholarship

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Sy, Lloyd Alimboyao. "Sarah Orne Jewett’s China." American Literary History, vol. 36, no. 3, 2024, pp. 727–749.
Olson, Kristen L. "Innovating the Early Modern: Pastoral Cycle and Epiphany in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs." Studies in American Fiction, vol. 51, no. 1, 2024, pp. 25-53.
Beaudry, Anna E. “Eudora Welty’s ‘A Still Moment’ and Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron.’” Eudora Welty Review, vol. 15, 2023, pp. 151–56.
Morgan, Jeff. The (Un)Welcome Stranger: Intercultural Sensitivity in Six American Novels. McFarland & Company Publishing, 2023.
Shollenberger, Jess. “The Sex Lives of Spinsters.” South Atlantic Review, vol. 87, no. 3, 2022, pp. 111–29.
Foote, Stephanie. “Neighborliness, Race, and Nineteenth-Century Regional Fiction.” Race in American Literature and Culture, edited by John Ernest, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 149–62.
Beaudry, Anna E. "A Return to the Commons: An Eco-Marxist Reading of Jewett's 'The Gray Mills of Farley' and Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills." American Literary Realism, vol. 55, no. 1, 2022, pp. 63–82.
Loreto, Paola. “The Vocalisations and Silences of the Infrahuman in Sarah Orne Jewett’s ‘A White Heron.’” Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, vol. 25, no. 1, 2021, pp. 53–63.
Maas, Alison. “‘Where Tide and River Meet’: The Estuarial Imaginaries of Sarah Orne Jewett, H. D., and Louise Bogan.” Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 2021, pp. 6–23.
Homestead, Melissa J. “What Was Boston Marriage? Sarah Orne Jewett and Biography.” J19: The Journal of Nineteeth-Century Americanists, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, pp. 129–36.
Squire, Kelsey. “Making Labor Visible: The One-Sided Correspondence of Sarah Orne Jewett and Abbie S. Beede.” J19: The Journal of Nineteeth-Century Americanists, vol. 9, no. 1, 2021, pp. 105–11.
Mrozowski, Daniel. “Hallowed Ground: The Gothic New England of Sarah Orne Jewett and Mary Wilkins Freeman.” American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic, edited by Monika Elbert and Rita Bode, Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021, pp. 97–113.
Roudeau, Cécile. “Sarah Orne Jewett’s New England Gothic and the Uncanny Durability of Imperial History.” American Women’s Regionalist Fiction: Mapping the Gothic, edited by Monika Elbert and Rita Bode, Palgrave Macmillan (London), 2021, pp. 57–75.
Spofford, Holly. “The Taming of Sylvia: Human/Nonhuman Community in ‘A White Heron.’” American Literary Realism, vol. 53, no. 3, 2021, pp. 247–65.
Yao, Christine “Xine.” “What a Doctor Should Look Like: Femme Erasure and the Politics of Dress.” Gender in American Literature and Culture, edited by Jean M. Lutes and Jennifer Travis, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 237–54.
Mehlman, Gabriel. “Jewett in the Systems Epoch.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, vol. 53, no. 2, 2020, pp. 235–53.