The Life of Nancy

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The Life of Nancy is a book by Sarah Orne Jewett. The contents list names pieces called Fame's Little Day, A War Debt, A Second Spring and A Winter Courtship, among others. The text describes the wooded hills and pastures of eastern Massachusetts as so close to Boston that from upper windows of the city, looking westward, you can see the tops of pine-trees and orchard-boughs on the high horizon.

A character named Nancy says she would give a great deal if she could only go somewhere and see some pretty dancing, and she looks eagerly at Tom to see what he would say. A character named Mrs. Martin retorts that men is boys, and says she always tells folks she has five children, counting Mr. Martin the youngest. Mrs. Lunn says to Cap'n Crowe that it is not polite to talk about his going when he has just come in, but that when he does go she has something she wants to send over to his sister Eliza.

About the author

Sarah Orne Jewett

Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American writer from South Berwick, Maine, and a leading figure in the local color movement. Her fiction preserved the speech, landscapes, and vanishing ways of coastal New England, and she influenced later writers including Willa Cather.