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8Jaqueline McLeod Rogers, Aspects of the Female Novel ( Wakefield, New Hampshire: Longwood Academic, 1991 ), p. 77.
9Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs (New York & London: W. W. Norton, 1981 ), p. 8.
10Sarah Way Sherman, "Introduction to the 1997 Edition of The Country of the Pointed Firs ", p. xxii, p. ix.
