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Romance in Real Life
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…
The Falls of Bash-Pish, or The Eagle's Nest
Sedgwick shares the notes of her excursion with a party of friends to see the falls at Bash-pish, and reflects on the benefits of traveling to experience the beauty of nature.
"The Patch-Work Quilt"
An elderly Black woman's story of a patchwork quilt that was sewn during the thirty years she worked in the home of a White family.
"The Slave and Slave Owner"
Abolitionist sketch published in a giftbook created for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1858).