Browse Items (75 total)
Sort by:
Who, and What, Has Not Failed
The narrator reflects on responses to the US financial crisis of 1837, focusing on a family whose daughter is about to be married, and offers an alternative to panic and despair.
The Unpresuming Mr. Hudson
A mother and daughter meet an eligible bachelor at a fashionable resort, and are confused by his disinterested behavior.
Scene at Niagara
A description of Niagara Falls, followed by a conversation between and mother and son about the sublimity of nature and God.
The Falls of Bash-Pish, or The Eagle's Nest
Sedgwick shares the notes of her excursion with a party of friends to see the falls at Bash-pish, and reflects on the benefits of traveling to experience the beauty of nature.
Widowhood
The narrator tells the story of Emily Winthrop and her journey from wife to widow and bereavement to peace.
An Excursion to Manchester
A sketch of the narrator's trip by rail to visit the planned manufacturing town of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Slavery in New England
Sedgwick tells the story of Elizabeth Freeman ("Mum-Bett"), a slave in Massachusetts, who sought and won her freedom after hearing a reading of the Declaration of Independence, with the help of Theodore Sedgwick. She also recounts many of Freeman's…
A Huguenot Family
A story that chronicles the trials of the d’Argile family during the Catholic persecution of the Huguenots—French Protestants—in 1672 under the reign of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV.
Varieties of Social Life in New York
The narrator, a self-described "old married man," compares and contrasts the entertainment offered in a single evening by a range of New Yorkers of different classes and ages.
Uncle David
An uncle teaches his nieces and nephews lessons about economics, gentility, and falls in love with a worthy woman.