"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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An Auction Sale
Auctions, friendship.
The narrator describes two auctions in which she took part, and reflects on friendship, buying, and selling.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (September 1846): 126-28.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West
1846
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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Second Thoughts Best
Courtship, marriage, love, duty.
An engagement is jeopardized by the couple's conflicting values and attitudes towards love and duty.
Sedgwick, Catharine M. [By Miss Sedgwick]
The Token, edited by Samuel G. Goodrich, pp. 201-258.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Company
1840 [pub. 1839]
L. Damon-Bach with Asa Anderson, Deanna Depaz, Megan Hennessey, Emily Moss, Kevin White, and Dr. Jenifer Elmore with Adriana Duebel, Ariana Fernandez, Lauren Sumner, and Julianna Weiss
Volume reissued as The Moss Rose, New York: 1846; and as The Honeysuckle, New York: 1848. Story reprinted in New-Yorker (31 August and 14 September 1839, pp: 386 and 406, and in The Rural Repository, 28 September 1839, pp 57-60 and 12 October 1839, pp. 65-69.
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Full Thirty
The Great Fire of 1835, women and work, May-December romance.
A young woman and her mother find themselves in reduced circumstances after a fire that devastates New York City. The daughter is supported in her efforts to earn a living by an older female friend of the family, who narrates the story, and a mature bachelor who develops romantic feelings for the young woman.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, [edited by Samuel G. Goodrich], pp. 214-246.
Boston: Charles Bowen
1837 [pub. 1836]
D. Gussman
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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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The Elder Sister
Family bonds, love, wooing, inner beauty.
A selfless daughter who has taken up her deceased mother's family duties is rewarded with a trip to visit a family friend, whose son develops romantic feelings for her.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
The Youth's Keepsake
Boston: Carter and Hendee
1830 [pub. 1829]
Kristina Curtis, D. Gussman
Collected (with revisions) as "The Eldest Sister" in Tales and Sketches, 183-203, 1835.
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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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The Falls of Bash-Pish, or The Eagle's Nest
Tourism, nature, the Berkshires, Bash-Pish
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Southern Literary Messenger [edited by T. H. White], Jan. 1839, pp. 34-39.
1839
L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
"The Falls of Bash-Pish: Or, the Eagle's Nest," By Miss C. M. Sedgwick, New-Yorker, 26 January 1839, pp. 290-93.
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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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