Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett, 148 Charles St., Boston

Item Information

Title:
Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett, 148 Charles St., Boston
Description:
In the library at 148 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts, the author Sarah Orne Jewett sits near the windows and the writer Annie Fields reads next to the fireplace. Fields, wife of publisher James T. Fields, led a literary salon in this house. They shared this home starting in the early 1880s. Many paintings and prints decorate the wall, and a piano fills the foreground of the image.
Format:
Photographs
Genre:
black-and-white prints (photographs)
photographs
Location:
Historic New England
Collection (local):
PC001: General photographic collection
Subjects:
private libraries (buildings)
authors
pianos
interior views
reading (activity)
Charles Street (Boston, Mass.)
women authors, American -- 19th century
women authors, American -- 20th century
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909
Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > Beacon Hill
Extent:
1 photograph
Link to Item:
http://gusn.us/195101
Terms of Use:
Rights status not evaluated.
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Identifier:
195101
Call #:
PC001.02.03.TMP.047