Eighteen Hundred Thirty-Eight's Farewell
New Year's eve, girlhood, self-examination, the language of flowers.
A visit from a mysterious old woman on New Year's eve leads a group of school girls to try a truth serum that enables them to see their faults and virtues on the flowers of a magical bush.
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. 39-51.
New York: Harper & Brothers
1940
D. Gussman
Collected in <em>Stories for Young Persons</em>, 1840, 39-51, 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 />Also collected in <em>Pretty Little Stories for Pretty Little People</em> by Miss Sedgwick. London: William McKenny, 1849, pp. 40-55; reprinted 1850. <br /><br />Online in the 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 22 July 2019.
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The Ballet: An American Lady's Opinion of the Opera
Ballet, morals
Sedgwick describes seeing Marie Taglioni dance in London, and and declares ballet to be lacking in virtue.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
New-Yorker, 14 July 1841, p. 341.
1841
D. Gussman
Excerpted (and slightly revised) from Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, By Miss Sedgwick. 2 vols. London: E. Moxon, 1841, pp. 62-63.
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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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