Native of Winby and Other Tales, A.
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Jewett, Sarah Orne. A Native of Winby and Other Tales. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893.
8vo.; maroon endpapers; hinges fragile; top edge darkened; moss-green cloth; stamped in gilt; spine sunned.
First edition, of this collection of short stories. With the bookplate of Anna Dorman affixed to the front pastedown, and a list of book by Jewett published by Houghton Mifflin opposite the title page. A presentation copy, inscribed on the second endpaper: To Mary E. Garrett/With a Christmas wish from S.O.J./1893. Garrett (1854-1915) was a philanthropist who founded the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore, was a benefactor to both that school and to the National American Woman Suffrage Association; and was responsible for getting Johns Hopkins to admit women. Jewett and Garret likely met at the literary salon that Jewett hosted in her Boston home; by 1892, in a reference to Garrett in Jewett’s biography, the women were part of a group who traveled to Italy for a holiday, and are described as “old friends” (Blanchard, Paula. Sarah Orne Jewett. Her World and Her Work. Radcliffe Biography Series. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1994; 260).
The stories included in this book are: “A Native of Winby,” “Decoration Day,” “Jim’s Little Woman,” “The Failure of David Berry,” “The Passing of Sister Barsett,” “Miss Esther’s Guest,” “The Flight of Betsey Lane,” “Between Mass and Vespers,” and “A Little Captive Maid.”
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