The Ballet: An American Lady's Opinion of the Opera
Ballet, morals
Sedgwick describes seeing Marie Taglioni dance in London, and and declares ballet to be lacking in virtue.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
New-Yorker, 14 July 1841, p. 341.
1841
D. Gussman
Excerpted (and slightly revised) from Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, By Miss Sedgwick. 2 vols. London: E. Moxon, 1841, pp. 62-63.
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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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