Life is Sweet
Youth, death, service, gratitude.
The narrator reflects on the vicissitudes of life and moralizes about the benefits of suffering and giving to others.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick
<em>Sartain's Union Magazine</em> (edited by Caroline M. Kirkland)
August 1848
B. Beyer, D. Gussman
Collected in <em>Tales of City Life.</em> Philadelphia: Hazard and Mitchell, 1850.<br />Collected in <em>The Gem of the Season</em>, edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis, 219-22, New York, 1850 (pub. 1849).<br />Collected in <em>The Thought Blossom</em>, edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis, 208-11, New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855.<br />Collected in <em>Charlie Hathaway, or The City Clerk and other Stories,</em> New York, 1869.<br />"A Tale With a Moral." <em>Pittsfield Sun</em>.[Pittsfield, MA]. (9 November 1848): 1.
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Straggling Excerpts from a Journal Kept in Switzerland
Travel in Switzerland, troubled marriage.
The narrator, "Miss S.", describes her travels in Switzerland with two young female companions, and their encounter with a mysterious English gentleman with a troubled past.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Sartain's Union Magazine, Volume II (January-June 1848): 115-121.
[edited by Caroline M. Kirkland]
1848
Kaley McDowell; D. Gussman
Reprinted as "The English Colonel and His Wife" by Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick in The Gem of the Season: A Souvenir for 1851, 58-80. New York: Leavitt and Company, 1851 [pub. 1850].
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