The Country of the Pointed Firs

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The Country of the Pointed Firs (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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The Boarder, a woman writer who comes to Dunnet Landing, Maine, to work in seclusion. Here she meets many people and finds friendly, interesting characters.

Mrs. Almira Todd, a friendly widow who accepts the writer as a boarder. She is also an herb doctor, growing herbs in her garden and searching out others in the fields.

Captain Littlepage, an elderly, retired sea captain who tells the writer a yarn about his own shipwreck and a town of ghosts near the North Pole, where souls await their passage to the next world.

Mrs. Blackett, Mrs....

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• Sarah Orne Jewett (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (Short Fiction)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (Long Fiction)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (Dictionary of World Biography)
• Sarah Orne Jewett (Identities and Issues)

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