Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett was born in 1849 in Maine, a state in north-western America. Her love of the countryside grew as she had to take long walks as a child to improve her health. She lived a quiet life and never married, although her short stories and novels about country life made her well-known. She died in 1909.

Articles by Sarah Orne Jewett

Going to Shrewsbury

Upper-IntermediateFiction

In the past, most people living quiet lives in the countryside never left the small towns they worked in. They lived, worked and expected to die near to the people they had known all their lives. The old widow in this story wanted the same but had to leave her farm to start a new life. (2,310 words)

Going to Shrewsbury

Pre-IntermediateFiction

This sad story is about an old woman who is forced to move out of the home she has shared with her husband all her life because of the ambition of her young nephew. (1,960 words)