Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett:
(September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909).
American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine.
Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside, and with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.
