Sarah Orne Jewett was published writer of fiction and ran in the literary circles of Mark Twain, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Oliver Wendell Holmes to name a few. She is also the first woman ever to receive an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Bowdoin College

To read her work, you can visit the Sarah Orne Jewett Text Project, an attempt to make all of Jewett's published writings available online. You can also read her works and many other writers at the Modern English Collection: Women Writers on the University of Virginia website.

The Cornell University's Making of America website also has many of her works online including many short stories the others do not have.

Her home is now a museum open to the public in South Berwick.

You can read a short biography about her at a website dedicated to women writers.

Another short biography and chronology of her life.

Another biography about her life.

Sarah Orne Jewett & the Ghost Story, with a note on her influence on H. P. Lovecraft, by Jessica Amanda Salmonson

Another chronology compiled by Julie Rocke of Millikin University.

More resources (lesson plans, portraits and pictures, online books, etc.) for Sarah Orne Jewett.