"Cacoethes Scribendi"
Women writers, love and marriage, village life.
A young woman is embarrassed when her writing is published by her family without her knowledge.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
<em>The Atlantic Souvenir</em>. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Lea, 17-38.
1830
J. Robinson
D. Gussman
Also collected in: <em>Stories of American Life</em>, vol. 3, Ed. Mary Russell Mitford (London, 1830), pp. 162-186.<br /><em>Tales and Sketches</em>. By Miss Sedgwick. (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835), pp. 165-181.<br /><em>Provisions: A Reader from 19th-Century American Women</em>. Ed. Judith Fetterley. Bloomington, (Indiana UP, 1985) pp. 49-59. <br /><em>The Norton Anthology of American Literature</em>, Vol. I, Ed. Nina Baym. (New York: Norton, 1998) pp.1007-1017.
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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.
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The White Hills in October
Star-crossed lovers, filial piety, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, off-season tourism.
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 and changes the young woman's fortunes.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [published anonymously]
Harper's New Monthly Magazine [edited by Alfred A. Guernsey] (December 1856): 44-56.
1856
Margaret Erickson, D. Gussman
The Continental Monthly [by C. M. Sedgwick] (October 1862): 423-44.
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Truth Versus Fiction
Heroism and virtue in everyday life.
The narrator is encouraged to abandon fiction and to write about real life, and tells the stories of two village women who passed in the previous year.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
The Columbian Magazine, [edited by John Inman and Robert A. West] Vol. 7 (January 1847): 1-4.
1847
Charlene Avallone, L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
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A Reminiscence of Federalism
Federalists and Democrats, partisanship, voting, friendship, courtship.
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine M. [By Miss Sedgwick]
The Token, edited by Samuel G. Goodrich.
Boston: Charles Bowen
1834 [pub. 1833]
Jenifer Elmore, Naomi Lau, Kaylin Ricciardi, Abigail Skinner
Collected in Catharine Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835: pp. 9-43. Collected in The Norton Anthology of American Literature, vol. 1, edited by Nina Baym, pp. 1017-38. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998.
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