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A country doctor / Sarah Orne Jewett ; edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick Wegener.

By:

Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909

Contributor(s):

Wegener, Frederick, 1957-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penguin classicsPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 2005.Description: xlvi, 271 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

0143039261
9780143039266

Notes: Sarah Orne Jewett lived in a Boston marriage with author Annie Adams Fields.Local Notes: Gift of Charles Rosenberg.Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Medical fiction.

Review: "As the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie, young Nan Prince becomes interested in medicine. But when she enters a medical college, she finds she must choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the expectations of society and her duty to her true self. In part an homage to Sarah Orne Jewett's beloved father, A Country Doctor portrays an America on the verge of change and Nan, ultimately, as a courageous young woman with a new world opening to her." "This edition, which reproduces the obituary of her father that Jewett wrote but published anonymously, includes an introduction exploring the rise of women doctors in nineteenth-century America and showing A Country Doctor as a pioneering narrative of a woman passionately following her professional calling."--Jacket.

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Title notes ( 4 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Book	Library Company of Philadelphia	Of2 A6009.O	Available		312237

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxix-xliii).

"As the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie, young Nan Prince becomes interested in medicine. But when she enters a medical college, she finds she must choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the expectations of society and her duty to her true self. In part an homage to Sarah Orne Jewett's beloved father, A Country Doctor portrays an America on the verge of change and Nan, ultimately, as a courageous young woman with a new world opening to her." "This edition, which reproduces the obituary of her father that Jewett wrote but published anonymously, includes an introduction exploring the rise of women doctors in nineteenth-century America and showing A Country Doctor as a pioneering narrative of a woman passionately following her professional calling."--Jacket.

Sarah Orne Jewett lived in a Boston marriage with author Annie Adams Fields.

Gift of Charles Rosenberg.