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- Title
What Was Boston Marriage? Sarah Orne Jewett and Biography.
- Authors
Homestead, Melissa J.
- Abstract
This essay reviews five years of scholarship on Sara Orne Jewett (c. 2014–19), with a focus on work foregrounding regionalism and on Queer readings. How does biography inform (or not inform) readings of Jewett's fiction? I conclude that new biographical work on Jewett and particularly her Boston marriage with Annie Adams Fields is needed. A dual biography of the two women has the potential both to deepen historical understanding of same-sex eroticism between women in the nineteenth-century United States and the nature of Boston marriage and to give impetus to new readings of Jewett's fiction.
- Subjects
UNITED States; JEWETT, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909; REGIONALISM; EROTICISM in literature; FICTION
- Publication
J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, 2021, Vol 9, Issue 1, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2166-742X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jnc.2021.0015