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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life, Chapter 8: local fiction (search)

and New England fiction. Both representing a rugged soil and a severely simple life, with a dialect supposed in both cases to be wholly unavailable for fiction, both have turned out to represent a nearly inexhaustible material-more available, in each case, the more it was worked. This is probably the case with any soil, at least any which is tolerably homogeneous and simple. The deeper you dig, the more you find. Probably any one village would afford material for a whole series of Waverley Novels, could it only be thoroughly explored. But at the same time the description must not be mere description; it must reach those deep springs of human motive which are the same everywhere. Aiming at this, and in sympathy with these strong motives, each author will find something of his own. No two Scotch parishes are alike, at least if one is painted by Barrie and the other by Ian Maclaren; nor any three New England hamlets if painted respectively by Sarah Orne Jewett, Mary Wilkins, and

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