"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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"Owasonook"
Deception, Marital Property
A widower is deceived by a Deacon into believing she has been left nothing. When she marries a man outside of the church she is threatened with excommunication.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
Sartain’s Union Magazine [edited by Caroline M. Korkland] NY. Vol. VI: p. 399-407
Sartain's Magazine
June 1850
J. Robinson
English
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"Passages From a Journal at Rockaway"
The beauty and pleasure of nature.
A sketch that contrasts June in New York City with Rockaway Beach.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
<em>Southern Literary Messenger</em>, [edited by T. H. White], (September 1838): 573-575.
1838
J. Robinson, D. Gussman
Reprinted in: <em>New-Yorker</em> (8 September 1838): 386-387
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"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.
English
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"Mary Smith"
Children's Fiction, Class Difference, Letter Writing, Republicanism
A young girl from a modest family is hurt by another young girl from a wealthy family.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Stockbridge, S.
Juvenile Miscellany V2 (edited by Mrs. LM [Lydia Maria] Child) Boston: p. 110-134
Allen and Ticknor
May 1829
J. Robinson
Sequel to “The Good Son” in Juvenile Miscellany (Jan. 1829): 217-29
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Who, and What, Has Not Failed
The Panic of 1837
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
New-Yorker, June 17, 1837, p. 199.
1837
D. Gussman
English
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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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English