A white heron, and other stories (1886). By: Sarah Orne Jewett: A white heron.--The gray man.--Farmer Finch.--Marsh rosemary.--The Dulham ladies.--A business man.--Mary and Martha.--The news from Petersham.--The two Browns

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 - June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
Jewett's family had been residents of New England for many generations, and Sarah Orne Jewett was born in South Berwick, Maine.Her father was a doctor specializing in "obstetrics and diseases of women and children."...