- Fiction, Women physicians in fiction, Women medical students in fiction, New England in fiction
Sarah Orne Jewett's pioneering novel about the making of a woman doctor in nineteenth-century New EnglandA hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett's story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and prestige.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Sarah Orne Jewett
- First published
- 1884
- Pages
- 351
- Publisher
- Garrett Press, Blackstone Audiobooks, Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786184316
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