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Jewett, Sarah Orne

author, was born Sept. 3, 1849, in South Berwick, Maine. She is popular writer of Maine. She is the noted author of Old Friends and New; Play-Days; Country By-Ways; Deephaven; The Mate of the Daylight, and Friends Ashore; A Country Doctor; A Marsh Island; A White Heron, and Other Stories; The Story of the Normans, an historical work; The King of Folly Island, and Other People; Betty Leicester, a Story for Girls; Strangers and Wayfarers; A Native of Winby, and Other Tales; The Life of Nancy; and The Country of the Pointed Firs.

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