"Might Versus Right"
Married women's property rights; temperance.
A young woman from a wealthy family marries and her husband legally gains rights to all of her property. The husband's poor business management and drinking cause him to lose the money, and the wife must work to support the family. When the husband claims his wife's wages without her knowledge, a sympathetic employer makes a kind gesture.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss C. M. Sedgwick
Sartain’s Union Magazine [edited by Caroline M. Kirkland], Vol. VI., 75-80.
Philadelphia: John Sartain & Co.
January - June 1850
J. Robinson; D. Gussman
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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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Daniel Prime
Avarice, murder.
A father disinherits his daughter because he disapproves of the man she marries. The husband's plot to regain his father-in-laws estate leads to fatal consequences.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Tales and Sketches, Second Series.
Harper & Brothers
1844
Anna Mullis, L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
Originally published in The Magnolia, edited by Henry William Herbert, 281-311. New York: Bancroft & Holley, 1837 [pub. 1836]. Also collected in The Irish Girl and Other Tales, 95-128, 1850, and in Stedman, Edmund Clarence and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson, eds. A Library of American Literature: An Anthology in Eleven Volumes, Vol. V , 199-215, 1891.
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Slavery in New England
Elizabeth Freeman (Mum-Bett), Northern slavery
Sedgwick tells the story of Elizabeth Freeman ("Mum-Bett"), a slave in Massachusetts, who sought and won her freedom after hearing a reading of the Declaration of Independence, with the help of Theodore Sedgwick. She also recounts many of Freeman's heroic acts on behalf of others, including her sister, an abused village girl, and the Sedgwick family for whom she worked as a paid servant.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Bentley's Miscellany, vol. 34, 1853, pp. 417-24.
1853
D. Gussman
"'Mumbett' (manuscript draft) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1853" from the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Papers. Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Online, <a href="http://www.masshist.org/database/547">http://www.masshist.org/database/547</a>. Accessed 11 April 2018.<br /><br />"'Slavery in New England' by Catharine Maria Sedgwick [annotated student weblog]." Stockton University (2006), <a href="http://loki.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/projects/sedgwick/SlaveryinNewEngland.html">http://loki.stockton.edu/%7Ekinsellt/projects/sedgwick/SlaveryinNewEngland.html. </a>Accessed 10 April 2018.
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An Excursion to Manchester
Train travel, nature, Manchester, manufacturing.
A sketch of the narrator's trip by rail to visit the planned manufacturing town of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Sartain's Union Magazine [edited by Caroline M. Kirkland], September 1847, pp. 111-13.
1847
D. Gussman
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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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