Country Pleasures
Country versus city life.
The narrator writes of a little girl, Lucy, who recently lost her mother and brother to death. Her father sends her to live with her aunt and cousin for a year in the country.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
<em>Juvenile Miscellany</em> [edited by Lydia M. Child] (May and June 1832): 111-34.
1832
L. Damon-Bach, Meghan Smith
Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 125-41, 1840.
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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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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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