An Incident at Rome
English travelers in Italy, antiquarianism.
The narrator, traveling in Italy, meets an English lady, who recounts the story of Mrs. Bathurst and her son Murray, a young antiquarian who goes mad while conducting research in Rome. He is eventually reunited with his mother and restored to sanity.
C[atharine]. M[aria]. Sedgwick
Graham's Magazine [edited by George R. Graham], March 1845: 104-8.
1845
Gabriela Siwiec
D. Gussman
English
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Susy's Cow
Mothers and daughters, cows, humane treatment of animals, poverty.
A widowed mother must sell her daughter's beloved cow in order to pay for medical care. The cow demonstrates devotion to its calf and the daughter.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
The Boys and Girls' Library [edited by Mrs. Colman]
Boston: T. H. Carter & Co.
1844
Robin Cadwallader, D. Gussman
Collected in The Boys' and Girls' Annual, Boston: T. H. Carter and Company, n.d., and in Stories for Children [edited by Robin Cadwallader], 1-12, RMTK Books, 2016.
English
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.
English
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