The Little Mendicants
Charity, Irish, Death, Prejudice
The narrator recounts a time in which her neighbor, Mrs. Devon, describes her charitable attention to local Irish Immigrants. While Mrs. Devon's charity is lauded, suspicion arises over the honesty of those she is serving. Questions form over the health of a particular Irish woman and her children. Mrs. Devon later discovers that some of her belongings are missing. Mrs. Devon and the narrator investigate the situation, and discover the truth and some underlying prejudices.
Sedgwick, Catherine M., Miss C. M. Sedgwick
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine [edited by John Inman and Robert A. West] (April 1846): 181-84.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine
1846
LDB, S. Riggins
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Varieties of Social Life in New York
Entertaining and social manners in New York City.
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1846, pp. 13-16.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West
1846
L. Damon-Bach, Shawn Riggins, D. Gussman
Collected in The Gem of the Season for 1849, 105-118. New York: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1849 [pub. 1848]. The Gem of the Season was reprinted as The Gallery of Mezzotints . . . for 1850. New York, 1850.
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New-Year's Day
Stock market speculation, love, and marriage.
A young man borrows money from his intended fiance's father and, after the stock market collapses, is estranged from her and family. Unbeknownst to the other, he works to repay her father, and she remains true to her love for him.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (February 1846): 83-89.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West
1846
Heather Harman; D. Gussman
Also collected in The Gem of the Season for 1849. New York: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1849.
English
Look Before You Leap
Marriage, courtship, love vs. reason.
A mother tells her daughters the story of a young woman who decided to marry an older man of whom she was fond but not passionately in love.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. (January 1846): 13-17.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West.
January 1846
Kristina Curtis; D. Gussman
Collected in The Irving Offering, 168-86. New York: Leavitt, & Company, 1851. [pub. 1850]
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Imelda of Bologna
Romance, Tragedy, Italy
In the Italian city of Bologna, a tragedy unites Imelda with her family’s enemy, the lord Boniface. The two fall in love, but are plotted against by Imelda’s brothers. While Imelda and Boniface plan their escape from danger, Imelda’s brothers plan his death.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine [edited by John Inman and Robert A. West] (May 1846): 253-61.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine
1846
Shawn Riggins
English
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"The Patch-Work Quilt"
Servants and family history
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss C. M. Sedgwick
The Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine [edited by John Inman and Robert A. West] p. 123-26.
Columbian Magazine
March 1846
J. Robinson
Also collected in:
Sedgwick, Catharine M. "The Patch Work Quilt." Love of Quilts: A Treasury of Classic Quilting Stories. Ed. Margaret Aldrich. Minneapolis: Voyageur, 2004. 24-33. Google Books. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
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