Someone Lived Here: Sarah Orne Jewett house in South Berwick, ME

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The home, this town, and it’s residents were the inspiration for many of Sarah Orne Jewett’s novels and short stories. Her writing is often described as regionalism, but behind her trailing descriptions of the Maine countryside, she was detailing the lives of independent women. Although these books were fiction we can see that independence mirrored in her own life which she lived here and in Boston with her partner Annie Fields.