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Sarah Orne Jewett

A Country Doctor

Paperback (The Large Print Book Company Sept. 28, 2007)
A Country Doctor was inspired by Jewett's own father, a doctor in Maine s rural countryside. The heroine of this novel, Nan Prince, finds herself the ward of a kindly widowed doctor, Dr. John Leslie, who takes her along on his patient visits and inspires in her an interest in medicine and the desire to become a doctor herself. Despite the disapproval of the women around her with Dr. Leslie s encouragement she does pursue a medical career even though it means declining a sincere offer of marriage.
ISBN
1596881054 / 9781596881051
Pages
292
Weight
14.7 oz.
Dimensions
6.0 x 0.5 in.

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