The Beauty of Soninberg. A Letter from Wiesbaden.
Germany, travel, love and devotion.
The narrator writes a letter describing her travels in Germany, and recounts a love story about a beautiful young woman in the town of Soninberg.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick, Author of 'Hope Leslie' &c.]
The Evergreen (May 1840), pp. 234-37.
New York: J. Winchester
1840
D. Gussman
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Nine Years Since
Old maids; the wreck of the steamer ship Pulaski (1838).
A mother tells a story about her friend to help revise her daughters’ conception of the label “old maid.”
Catharine M. Sedgwick
The Columbian Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine. [edited by John Inman and Robert A. West] Vol. VII (May 1847): 207-212.
New York: Ormsby and Hackett
May 1847
L. Damon Bach, M. Smith
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"Old Maids"
Sacrifice, stigma towards unmarried women, alternatives to marriage.
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.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Miss Sedgwick
“Old Maids,” <em>The Offering, </em> 17-46, Philadelphia, Thomas T. Ash, 1834.
1834
J. Robinson; D. Gussman
Annual reissued as <em>The Wreath of Friendship</em>, 1837.<br />Reprinted in <em>The Casket</em>, March 1834, 137-139 and<br /><em>Tales and Sketches </em>by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1835: 97-116.<br />Collected in <em>Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women Writers</em>, ed. Susan Koppelman, Boston: Pandora Press, 1984: 11-26.
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