The 19th century writer Sarah Orne Jewett spent much of her life in a stately Georgian residence in South Berwick that today the maintained by Historic New England.
The author of many novels and short stories, Jewett is perhaps best-known for the novella The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), A Country Doctor (1884), a novel reflecting her father and her early ambitions for a medical career, and A White Heron (1886), a collection of short stories.
Jewett drew on life in the Seacoast region, and often wrote at the desk in the upper hall overlooking the town center.