![]() ![]() Jewett's life may have inspired parts of The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories. Pointed Firs did little to assuage criticism over Jewett's non-linear plots, though the criticism was far more muted for this story than it was for earlier efforts like the novel Deephaven. Cather would eventually comment that, along with The Scarlet Letter and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Pointed Firs and its related stories were among the American texts most likely to stand the test of time. Reuben explains that critics praised the novella when it was first published. In his assessment of "Pointed Firs," Paul P. ![]() She had been receiving reviews from major figures such as William Dean Howells for nearly 20 years, and had befriended several other established literary personalities, including Willa Cather, a fellow novelist who would edit Jewett's work after she died in 1909. ![]() By the time Sarah Orne Jewett published The Country of the Pointed Firs in two parts in The Atlantic in 1896, she was already a respected and well-known author. ![]()
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