Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Although "A White Heron" would go on to become one of Jewett's most praised stories, she was initially worried that it wouldn't be received well. In a letter to a friend, she wrote that she loved "A White Heron" despite the fact that wasn't "a very good magazine story." (Source.)
Jewett's writing career started early; she published her first short story when she was seventeen, and had one published in The Atlantic by the time that she was nineteen. Talk about starting young. (Source.)
Although Sarah Orne Jewett passed away in 1909, her former childhood home has been turned into a museum to preserve her memory. In fact, her bedroom has hardly changed in the hundred years since. (Source.)