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"The story of a woman's independence and how she must choose between marriage and commitment to her vocation as a country doctor in Maine in the late 1800s."
"Girl defies the customs of her times and becomes a doctor."@en
"Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women's issues of her time. Perhaps even more important, Jewett's perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight, convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style. A contemporary and friend of Willa Cather, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Orne Jewett is widely recognized as a pathfinder in American literary history, courageously pursuing a road less traveled that led the way for other women to follow. From the Paperback edition."@en
"This novel was deeply inspired by Jewett's father and her own ambitions for a career in medicine. Young Nan Price accompanies Dr. Leslie on long hikes to make house calls. Nan wants to follow in Leslie's footsteps and become a doctor, so he encourages her to study and attend medical school in the city. As a young girl Jewett would often travel with her physician father on his rounds, and it was through these trips that she became aware of the sights and sounds of her home in rural Maine."@en
"A 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. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she becomes his protegee. But when she enters medical college, she realizes that she will have to choose between marriage and her career, between the demands of her society and her obligations to her true self. Inspired by Jewett's own interests and by her father, A Country Doctor portrays a world very much in flux and Nan, ultimately, as a woman with a new world opening to her. First time in Penguin Classics."@en
"Inspired by the author's own father, a doctor in Maine's rural countryside, the story describes Nan Prince, who finds herself the ward of a kindly widowed doctor, Dr. John Leslie. Leslie takes her along on his patient visits and inspires in her a strong interest in medicine and the desire to become a doctor herself."@en
"Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century. Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women's issues of her time. Perhaps even more importantly, Jewett's perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style."

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"A Country Doctor"
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"A Country Doctor : By Sarah Orne Jewett"
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