The Deformed Boy
Charity, virtue, and honesty.
A poor young boy, whose legs have been affected by rickets, attracts the attention and charity of kind friends due to his good humor and virtue.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria [by the author of "The Linwoods," "Poor Rich Man," "Love Token," "Live & Let Live," &c.]
<em>Stories for Young Persons,</em> pp. 9-38.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1840
Angie Lydon, Michael Nicosa, Cyntheara Tham, L. Damon Bach, D. Gussman
Originally published as <em>The Deformed Boy. </em>By the author of "Redwood," &c. Brookfield: E. and G. Merriam Printers, 1826. <br />Reprinted as <em>The Deformed Boy.</em> By the author of "Redwood." Springfield: Merriam, Little & Co, 1831.<br />Collected in Stories for Young Persons, 1840, 9-38, reprinted 1841, 1842, 1846, 1855, 1860; reprinted 184? By the author of "The Linwoods," "Poor Rich Man," "Love Token," "Live and Let Live," &c. London: W. Smith.
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Marietza
1822 Greek uprising on the island of Chios, cross-cultural romance.
A Greek/Chian girl witnesses the destruction of her home/island as a consequence of the 1822 uprising against Turkish domination, and subsequently marries her English protector.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria [by the author of "The Linwoods," "Poor Rich Man," "Love Token," "Live & Let Live," &c]
<em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, pp. 52-66.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1840
D. Gussman
Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 1840, 52-66, reprinted 1841, 1842, 1846, 1855, 1860; reprinted 184? By the author of "The Linwoods," "Poor Rich Man," "Love Token," "Live and Let Live," &c. London: W. Smith. <br /><br />Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867, and Cairns Collection of American Women Writers. <em>Stories for Young Persons</em> ... New York: Harper & Brothers, 1840. HathiTrust Digital Library https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007092366 Accessed 11 July 2019.
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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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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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The White Scarf
15th-century France, the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War, romance.
An historical romance set in 15th-century France, focusing on a relationship between a French servant girl and an Italian nobleman that is disrupted by political conflicts and rivalries in the court of Charles VI.
Sedgwick, Catharine M. [By Miss Sedgwick]
The Token, edited by Samuel G. Goodrich, pp. 1-62.
Boston: Otis, Broaders, and Company
1839 [pub. 1838]
D. Gussman
Reprinted in The Hesperian: or, Western Monthly Magazine, vol 2., no. 5, 1839, pp. 375-390. Collected in A New England Tale and Miscellanies by Catharine M. Sedgwick, New York: George P. Putnam & Co., 1852, pp. 295-334.
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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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Matty Gore
Christian faith and the misfortunes that result from neglect of religion.
A young woman's Christian faith sustains her through life's trials, while her father's and brother's lack of faith and duty lead to unhappiness and tragedy.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [Miss C. E. Sedgwick]
The Religious Souvenir, edited by Lydia Howard Sigourney, pp. 50-90.
New York: Scofield & Voorhies
1840 [pub. 1839]
D. Gussman
Annual reissued as The Religious Souvenir. Hartford, Conn.: S. Andrus and Son, 1846.
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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
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Widowhood
Marriage, widowhood, faith, and resilience.
The narrator tells the story of Emily Winthrop and her journey from wife to widow and bereavement to peace.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
The Mirror of Life, edited by Louisa C. Tuthill, Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1847, pp. 165-74.
Lindsay and Blakiston
1847
D. Gussman
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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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