Her adoration of her father was so strong, apparently, that it prevented her from ever falling in love. Jewett's first story was published in , when she was 19, and the next year another story initiated her long association with the Atlantic Monthly and other prestigious magazines.
William Dean Howells, an editor of the Atlantic, encouraged her to collect several sketches and connect them with a fictional framework. These became the novel Deephaven Jewett's best fiction portrayed the area surrounding and including the town of her birth and childhood, a home to which she always returned after her wide-ranging travels and where she died on June 24, Villages much like South Berwick were almost deserted by the men and by the young of both sexes, leaving as inhabitants mostly older women.
Jewett wrote about this dying world and the isolated or the elderly who find deep meanings in local customs and private experiences. Jewett's most acclaimed work is her collection of stories, The Country of the Pointed Firs , published in Young Sarah was afflicted with rheumatoid arthritis. Her father was a prominent doctor and prescribed long walks to ease the condition. She also accompanied him on his rounds, which contributed to her deep love for the South Berwick area and the small seaports of Maine.
Jewett published at the age of 19 with her short story, Mr. Bruce , in the Atlantic Monthly.
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