Modern Chivalry
Runaways, female virtue, chivalry, heroism, Revolutionary War.
A young American sailor rescues a mysterious young female English runaway, and goes on to become a heroic naval captain in the Revolutionary War, and a later a prosperous merchant.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [By the author of Redwood]
The Atlantic Souvenir, 5-47
H. C. Carey & Lea
1826
Dr. Jenifer Elmore with Megan Konynenbelt, Sarah Selden, and Rachel Sakrisson; D. Gussman
Reprinted in New-York Mirror, edited by Horace Greeley, 25- Nov. 1826: 137-39.
Collected in The Ladies' Monthly Museum, Vol. XXV pp. 260-264, 325-331 and Vol. XXVI pp. 29-36, 91-97, London: Dean and Munday, 1827.
Collected in Lights and Shadows of American Life, vol.. 3, edited by Mary Russell Mitford, 226-73, London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832.
Collected in Yorkshire Literary Annual for 1832, pp.202-232, edited by C. F. Edgar, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Browne & Greene, 1832.
Collected as "The Chivalric Sailor" in Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches, pp.237-78, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1835.
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"The Slave and Slave Owner"
Abolitionism, slavery.
Abolitionist sketch published in a giftbook created for the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (1858).
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
<em>Autographs for Freedom,</em> ed. Julia Griffiths.
John P. Jewett and Company
1858
D. Gussman
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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