Illustrations
associated with The Country of the Pointed Firs
Sarah Wyman Whitman's Cover - 1896 Edition
1910 Edition
The frontispiece is by Marcia Oakes Woodbury (1865-1913). Born like Jewett in South Berwick, Maine, Woodbury studied painting in New York and Paris. Her paintings, "Triptych" and "Mother and Daughter," belong to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She and her husband, Charles H. Woodbury (1864-1940), also an artist, were friends of Jewett. Together they designed illustrations for a Holiday Edition of Deephaven that appeared in 1893, from which the frontispiece is borrowed (Cary, Sarah Orne Jewett Letters, p. 85).
Frontispiece of the 1910 Edition of The Country of the
Pointed Firs
From the Illustrations for Deephaven (1893)
Courtesy of the University of Iowa Library
In the Garden
Originally titled "Mrs. Dockum" in Deephaven
Title Page of the 1910 Edition
Photograph Illustrations for the Visitors' Edition - 1919
by Charles Sumner Olcott 1864-1935
Author and photographer. His books include:
The text available to the
editor was rebound, with two illustrations missing: "A Handy
Dory, an' Johnny Bowden" (48) and "A Dunnet Landing House at
which the Author was a frequent visitor" (116).
Frontispiece: Dunnet Landing
In Chapter 3 The Schoolhouse
In Chapter 9 William
In Chapter 11 The Old Singers
In Chapter 13 Poor Joanna
In Chapter 17 A Country Road
In Chapter 17 A Country Road
In Chapter 19 The Feast's End
In Chapter 20 Along Shore
In Chapter 20 Along Shore
In "A Dunnet Shepherdess" [Chapter 21]
Note that the 1919 edition varies from the first edition,
interpolating sequels between the original Chapters 20 and 21.
In "William's Wedding" [Chapter 22]
In "The Queen's Twin" [Chapter 23]
In The Backward View [Chapter 24]
Advertisement for Jewett's books
Atlantic Monthly 79, June 1897
from back pages.
