Browse Items · Sedgwick Stories: The Periodical Writings of Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Second Thoughts Best

An engagement is jeopardized by the couple's conflicting values and attitudes towards love and duty.

Tags: "Address to Kilchurn Castle Upon Loch Awe", "Faust", "Principles and Prudence in Politics: The Friend", "She Was a Phantom of Delight", "The Seasons: A Hymn", 1839, 1840, 2 Corinthians 1:22, All's Well That Ends Well, Apollo, Ashby de la Zouch, bankruptcy, belle, Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, courtship, Death, Democrat, duty, El Dorado, engagement, Ephesians 1:13, factionalism, Isaiah 40:8, Ivanhoe, James Thomson (1700-1748), Jewess, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John 3:8, John Milton, letters, loco-foco, Louvre, Love, Mammon, marriage, Measure for Measure, Oliver Goldsmith, Paradise Lost, party politics, phrenology, Procrustes bed, Samuel G. Goodrich, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, speculation, sultan, tableau vivant, The Token, Tories, Whigs, widows, William Wordsworth

A Reminiscence of Federalism

The narrator recounts the partisan divide between Federalists and Democrats in a New England town by reminiscing about a childhood friend, and her suitor's coming of age.

Tags: "Hymn to Adversity" (1782), "Il Penseroso" (1645), 1833, 1834, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), Acts 7.60, Angelica Catalani, anonymous publication, aristocracy, As You Like It, ballots, Beauty and the Beast, Chimborazo, clergy, coming of age, Cotton Mather, courtship, Curtius, Death, death-bed promise, Democrat, Edie Ochiltree, elections, Federalism, Gioachino Rossini, Helicon, herbalist, Increase Mather, inheritance, Jack and the Beanstalk, Jacobin, Jews, John Adams, John Cotton, John Milton, Judges 11:34, lampoons, Laurence Sterne, lawyer, letters, Love, marriage, New England, newspapers, Norton Anthology of American Literature, Paradise Lost, partisan, pseudonym, Puritans, second wives, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, sisters, Southerners, spinster, Tales and Sketches -First Series, The Age of Reason (1794), The Antiquary (1816), The Token, Thomas Gray, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, Tristam Shandy, Uncle Toby, Vermont, Virgil, widowers, William Cullen Bryant

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…

Tags: 1777, 1787, 1827, 1839, adoption, Alexander Pope, ambassador, An Essay on Man -Epistle IV, Anna Matilda, As You Like It, Auld Robin Gray, boarding school, Boston, Catskills, class, Comte de Mosloy, constancy, Count Louis-Guillaume Otto, courtship, Death, Della Crusco, disguise, Dogs, Elizabeth Livingston, engagement, France, French, Friendship, General Henry Knox, guitar, Hannah, Hannah Cowley, Hudson River, Huguenot, Hymen, I Samuel 1, inn, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Jewsharp, Lady of Loretto, Le Misanthrope, letters, Letters from an American Farmer, Lisbon, locket, Lorenzo, Love, Love’s Labour Lost, marriage, Massachusetts, Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, Moliére, Mothers, music, New York, nobility, Normandy, Orlando, Paris, portrait painter, Providence, Revolutionary War, Robert Livingston, Robert Merry, Romance, Samuel Daniel, Saxon, Shakespeare, shipwreck, sonnets, spy, Tales and Sketches (First Series), Tauconnuc, The Complaint of Rosamund, The Garland, The Legendary, United States, Xantippes

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.

Tags: "L' Aurora", 1837, bankruptcy, books, children, cholera, Ellen Tree, fidelity, financial crisis, Guido Reni, Hoboken, kindness, Love, marriage, Nature, New York, New-Yorker, Panic of 1837, Paris, servants, speculation, The Metropolitan

The White Hills in October

The narrator presents the journal of a trip to the White Mountains by Mary Langdon, a young American woman, who has just ended a relationship with her German lover due to her father's disapproval. A mysterious stranger appears at a significant moment…

New-Year's Day

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.

Tags: 1846, Braubach Castle, China, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, expiation, Germany, gift giving, grandchildren, laurestina (tree), Love, marriage, New Year's Day, omens, repudiation, servants, Siblings, singlehood, speculation, stock market

Look Before You Leap

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.

The Bridal Ring

Arabella, a young woman of particular musical talent and beauty, becomes engaged to Wingfield Clayborne. Clayborne falls out of love with her and requests the ring back. Arabella takes literally the vow she gave Clayborne and returns the ring only…

Tags: Arabella, Autumn, Clayborne, Clermont Cottage, Death, engagement, Love, religion, St. Clair, The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, Vow

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