Country Pleasures
Country versus city life.
The narrator writes of a little girl, Lucy, who recently lost her mother and brother to death. Her father sends her to live with her aunt and cousin for a year in the country.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
<em>Juvenile Miscellany</em> [edited by Lydia M. Child] (May and June 1832): 111-34.
1832
L. Damon-Bach, Meghan Smith
Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 125-41, 1840.
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Dogs
Dogs, dog-training, cruelty to animals, loyalty, goodness versus genius..
After an older brother tells his younger siblings all about an extraordinary dog he encountered in New York City, his mother criticizes animal cruelty and reminds them of the fidelity and goodness of dogs.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
"Stockbridge S."
<em>The Juvenile Miscellany</em> [edited by Lydia Maria Child], (March 1828): 30-43
1828
L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
Reprinted as <em>The Sagacity of Dogs.</em> Boston: Marsh & Capen, 1828. Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 153-63, 1840.
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Berkeley Jail
Prison, Loyalty, Love, Native Americans
The narrator recounts the story of the Vassal family, whose only surviving member and an old family servant rescue a Native American man, held for the murder of a local white property owner.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
<em>The Atlantic Souvenir</em>, Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831: 13-53
Carey and Lea
1831
Shawn Riggins, Ciara Freeman, D. Gussman
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Saturday Night
Teaching children to appreciate the gifts of the five senses and God.
A mother tells her children a bedtime story about a mysterious Friend who gives children precious gifts, and teaches a lesson about gratitude and prayer.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Stories for Young Persons, 146-52.
Harper & Brothers
1840
Heather Harman, Nicole Wheatley, D, Gussman
Originally published "by Stockbridge S." in the Juvenile Miscellany, [edited by Lydia M. Child] (January 1827): 31-39. Collected in A Short Essay to Do Good, 18-24, 1828
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Romance in Real Life
Historical fiction, Romance, French and American relations.
An historical romance in two parts, focusing first on the Boston childhood of orphan Marie Reynolds/Angely (implied to be the long-lost daughter of a fictionalized Hector St. Jean de Crèvecoeur), and subsequently on Marie's mysterious meeting with and eventual marriage to a US diplomat.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [By the Author of "Redwood."]
The Legendary, edited by Nathaniel Parker Willis, 118-61.
Boston: Samuel G. Goodrich
1828 [pub. 1827]
Esther Hagan, Savvy Myles, and Angelica Tijerino, with Dr. Jenifer Elmore (Palm Beach Atlantic University); and Julia Carey, Sean Godbout, Emily Kay, Isabella Lopresti, Diana Villanueva, Jake Lyons, with Dr. Lucinda Damon-Bach (Salem State University),
Reprinted in The Garland, pp. 198-264, Boston, 1839. Reprinted in The Diadem, New York: 1850. Collected in Tales and Sketches, By Miss Sedgwick, Author of "The Linwoods," "Hope Leslie," &c. &c. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835, pp. 237-78.
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The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
Germany, travel, love and devotion.
The narrator writes a letter describing her travels in Germany, and recounts a love story about a beautiful young woman in the town of Soninberg.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick, Author of 'Hope Leslie' &c.]
The Evergreen (May 1840), pp. 234-37.
New York: J. Winchester
1840
D. Gussman
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