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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849–1909) was one of the most important American regionalist writers of the late nineteenth century, best known for her depictions of rural New England life. While her realistic fiction earned her a place in American literary history, Jewett also wrote a number of supernatural tales that demonstrate her unique approach to the uncanny. These stories, which Jessica Amanda Salmonson has termed "imaginative realism," blend the everyday with the inexplicable in ways that are distinctly Jewett's own.