Open AccessYarns Spun to Order: Harriet Beecher Stowe's The Pearl of Orr's Island and the Advent of Maine Summer Tourism
Author(s) -
Susan F. Beegel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the new england quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.1
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1937-2213
pISSN - 0028-4866
DOI - 10.1162/tneq_a_00792
Subject(s) - witness , popularity , tourism , pearl , order (exchange) , fishing , history , geography , art history , archaeology , political science , law , business , finance
The popularity of Harriet Beecher Stowe's “local color” novel, The Pearl of Orr's Island, coincided with the coming of summer tourism to the Maine coast. From 1881 until about 1917, thousands of readers poured onto tiny Orr's Island each summer hoping to experience Stowe's fictional world firsthand. The observations of period travel writers offer an opportunity to witness a small Maine fishing village reinventing itself for a new economy, spinning popular interest in an historical novel into a new identity.
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