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"First Love"
Story about a young woman's passionate first love, her parents' intervention, and her subsequent happy marriage to another man.
"Might Versus Right"
A young woman from a wealthy family marries and her husband legally gains rights to all of her property. The husband's poor business management and drinking cause him to lose the money, and the wife must work to support the family. When the husband…
"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.
Tags: 1846, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, Consumption, Death, Germans, God, Indians, marriage, missionaries, Patch-work, quilts, Race, Relics, Saxon, servant, Stockbridge, Waterloo, West
"Owasonook"
A widower is deceived by a Deacon into believing she has been left nothing. When she marries a man outside of the church she is threatened with excommunication.
"Cacoethes Scribendi"
A young woman is embarrassed when her writing is published by her family without her knowledge.
"Old Maids"
Two women are discussing the negative views of old maids, and one gives the sad account of an old maid who gave up her true love for the happiness of her sister, and the unintended consequences of that sacrifice for all of the parties involved.
Imelda of Bologna
In the Italian city of Bologna, a tragedy unites Imelda with her family’s enemy, the lord Boniface. The two fall in love, but are plotted against by Imelda’s brothers. While Imelda and Boniface plan their escape from danger, Imelda’s brothers plan…
Crescent Beach
The narrator tells a story about her vacation on a beach, focusing on a little girl’s relationship with her young mother and the mother’s adultery.
An Incident at Rome
The narrator, traveling in Italy, meets an English lady, who recounts the story of Mrs. Bathurst and her son Murray, a young antiquarian who goes mad while conducting research in Rome. He is eventually reunited with his mother and restored to sanity.…
Tags: 1845, antiquarian, antiquities, beggars, Cicero, Frascati, Graham's Magazine, India, Italy, madness, marriage, merchants, Mothers, pride, Roman Catholic, Rome, sons, Southey, sympathy, Tusculum, Wordsworth