The Unpresuming Mr. Hudson
Travel, fashionable-watering places, marriage market.
A mother and daughter meet an eligible bachelor at a fashionable resort, and are confused by his disinterested behavior.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
The Gift, edited by Eliza Leslie, pp. 17-38.
Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart.
1836 [published in 1835]
D. Gussman
Reprinted in The Boston Weekly Magazine, vol. 1, no. 43, June 29, 1839, p. 337-338.
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Varieties of Social Life in New York
Entertaining and social manners in New York City.
The narrator, a self-described "old married man," compares and contrasts the entertainment offered in a single evening by a range of New Yorkers of different classes and ages.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine, July 1846, pp. 13-16.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West
1846
L. Damon-Bach, Shawn Riggins, D. Gussman
Collected in The Gem of the Season for 1849, 105-118. New York: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1849 [pub. 1848]. The Gem of the Season was reprinted as The Gallery of Mezzotints . . . for 1850. New York, 1850.
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