The Catholic Iroquois
Catholic missionaries on the Canadian colonial frontier; Native captivity, conversion.
The historical story of Pere Mesnard is combined with an account of a young Native captive who becomes a Catholic martyr.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Tales and Sketches.
Carey, Lea, & Blanchard.
1835
D. Gussman
First published in The Atlantic Souvenir, 72-103. Philadelphia: H.C. Carey & Lea, 1826. Also collected (with editorial changes) in Stories of American Life, vol. 3., edited by Mary Russell Mitford. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830.
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A Huguenot Family
Catholic persecution of French Protestants in the 17th century.
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Godey's Lady's Book [edited by Sarah Josepha Hale], September and October 1842, pp. 144-48 and 189-93.
1842
Jenifer Elmore, Miriam Alcala, Madison Brockman, Stephanie Daniels, Olivia Taylor, D. Gussman
Collected (with minor revisions) in Catharine Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches, Second Series, 249-89, New York: Harper & Bros., 1844; collected in Catharine Sedgwick, The Irish Girl and Other Tales, 54-94, London: Kent & Richards, and Edinburgh: J. Menzies, 1850.
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Christian Charity
Calvinism vs. Unitarianism, orthodoxy.
A young girl learns the difference between Calvinism and Unitarianism, but is nevertheless encouraged to be charitable to all Christians, regardless of particular affiliation.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [By the author of Redwood.]
A Short Essay To Do Good, 4-14.
Stockbridge [Mass.] : Printed by Webster and Stanley.
1828
Michael Monescalchi; D. Gussman
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A short essay to do good. Stockbridge [Mass.] : Printed by Webster and Stanley, 1828;
Repository Collection Development Department, Widener Library. HCL, Harvard University. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:7572801. Accessed 09 July 2019
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Modern Chivalry
Runaways, female virtue, chivalry, heroism, Revolutionary War.
A young American sailor rescues a mysterious young female English runaway, and goes on to become a heroic naval captain in the Revolutionary War, and a later a prosperous merchant.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [By the author of Redwood]
The Atlantic Souvenir, 5-47
H. C. Carey & Lea
1826
Dr. Jenifer Elmore with Megan Konynenbelt, Sarah Selden, and Rachel Sakrisson; D. Gussman
Reprinted in New-York Mirror, edited by Horace Greeley, 25- Nov. 1826: 137-39.
Collected in The Ladies' Monthly Museum, Vol. XXV pp. 260-264, 325-331 and Vol. XXVI pp. 29-36, 91-97, London: Dean and Munday, 1827.
Collected in Lights and Shadows of American Life, vol.. 3, edited by Mary Russell Mitford, 226-73, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832.
Collected in Yorkshire Literary Annual for 1832, pp.202-232, edited by C. F. Edgar, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Greene, 1832.
Collected as "The Chivalric Sailor" in Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches, pp.237-78, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835.
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