Sarah Orne Jewett was born Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett in 1849 in Berwick, Maine to an upper-middle class New England family. Jewett was born in a colonial mansion purchased by her grandfather, a sea captain and merchant. Her father was a country doctor, and she contemplated a medical career. In 1850 she began her half-hearted elementary education at Miss Rayne's school, preferring to be outdoors instead of indoors learning. She finished high school in 1865 when she graduated from Berwick Academy, completing formal education. Jewett was raised with tons of books in and around her home, and after
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