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Gender, History, And Nature In Sarah Orne Jewett’S Country Of The Pointed Firs, Sarah Hamelin
Gender, History, And Nature In Sarah Orne Jewett’S Country Of The Pointed Firs, Sarah Hamelin
Maine History
Sarah Orne Jewett's beautifully crafted stories of life on the Maine coast helped make this section of our state a nationally recognized landscape icon. Her characters, however; are not what we would expect to find in a state renowned for male-dominated pursuits like deep-sea fishing, logging, and river-driving. Jewett's people— the inhabitants of Dunnet Landing—are generally old and female. Jn describing them, she presents us with a picture of coastal life as a gentlewoman’s world. Jewett accents gender and age by setting her characters against a backdrop of nature and history. Sarah Hamelin is a student at the University of …
The Life Of Mother Marie-Joseph De L’Enfant Jesus, Or, How A Little English Girl From Wells Became A Big French Politician, Ann M. Little
The Life Of Mother Marie-Joseph De L’Enfant Jesus, Or, How A Little English Girl From Wells Became A Big French Politician, Ann M. Little
Maine History
In 1703 seven-year-old Esther Wheelwright was kidnapped from her home by the Wabanaki during an attack on the town of Wells, Maine. Ultimately sold to a French missionary and taken to Quebec, she converted to Catholicism, entered the Ursuline convent, and rose to become their first and last English-born Mother Superior. Her biographers have seen Esther Wheelwright/Mother Esther de L’Enfant Jesus as a passive instrument of religion and politics and have rendered her nothing more than an antiquarian curiosity. This study instead explores how her ability to cross many borders— national, religious, and linguistic—enabled Mother Esther to become both an …
The Persis Sibley Andrews Black Diaries, William David Barry, Stephanie Philbrick
The Persis Sibley Andrews Black Diaries, William David Barry, Stephanie Philbrick
Maine History
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