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A country doctor / Sarah Orne Jewett ; edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick Wegener.
- Title
- A country doctor / Sarah Orne Jewett ; edited with an introduction and notes by Frederick Wegener.
- Author
- Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
- Publication
- New York : Penguin Books, 2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Wegener, Frederick, 1957-
- Description
- xlvi, 271 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- Penguin classics
- Uniform Title
- Penguin classics
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Pastoral fiction
- Medical novels
- Fiction
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxxix]-xliii).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0143039261
- LCCN
- ^^2004058739
- OCLC
- 56632096
- SCSB-12528585
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library