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"The Slave and Slave Owner"
Abolitionist sketch published in a giftbook created for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1858).
"New York Fountains and Astor Baths"
A sketch describing public fountains and art in New York City.
"First Love"
Story about a young woman's passionate first love, her parents' intervention, and her subsequent happy marriage to another man.
"Rural Life"
Tags: Country
"Ella"
A modest young woman from the country comes to live with her city cousins, and uses Biblical and parental precepts to adjust and thrive.
"Mary Smith"
A young girl from a modest family is hurt by another young girl from a wealthy family.
Tags: Consumption, Country, Fall, Juvenile Miscellany, Nature, New York, religion, tears
"Might Versus Right"
A young woman from a wealthy family marries and her husband legally gains rights to all of her property. The husband's poor business management and drinking cause him to lose the money, and the wife must work to support the family. When the husband…
"The Patch-Work Quilt"
An elderly Black woman's story of a patchwork quilt that was sewn during the thirty years she worked in the home of a White family.
Tags: 1846, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Consumption, Death, Germans, God, Indians, marriage, missionaries, Patch-work, quilts, Race, Relics, Saxon, servant, Stockbridge, Waterloo, West
"Owasonook"
A widower is deceived by a Deacon into believing she has been left nothing. When she marries a man outside of the church she is threatened with excommunication.