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A Marsh Island by Sarah Orne Jewett (editor); Don James McLaughlin (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is A Marsh Island about?

In 1901, Sarah Orne Jewett declared her “best story” to be __A Marsh Island__, a novel about queer kinship. Written a few years into her decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, the novel envisions the saltmarsh as a figure for valuing both individuality and a porous openness to the gifts of others. Toward the end of her life, Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) made a surprising disclosure. Instead of the critically lauded __The Country of the Pointed Firs__, Jewett declared her “best story” to be __A Marsh Island__ (1885), a little-known novel. Why? One reason is that it demonstrates Jewett’s range. Known primarily for her vignettes, Jewett accomplished in these pages a truly great novel. Undoubtedly, another reason lies in the novel’s themes of queer kinship and same-sex domesticity, as enjoyed by the flamboyant protagonist Dick Dale. Written a few years into Jewett’s decades-long companionship with Annie Fields, __A Marsh Island__ echoes Jewett’s determination to split time between her family home in Maine and Fields’s place on Charles Street in Boston. The novel follows the adventures of Dale, a Manhattanite landscape painter in the Great Marsh of northeastern Massachusetts and

Who reads A Marsh Island?

Author

Sarah Orne Jewett (editor); Don James McLaughlin (editor)

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9781512824278

Category

nonfiction