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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An Excursion to Manchester
Train travel, nature, Manchester, manufacturing.
A sketch of the narrator's trip by rail to visit the planned manufacturing town of Manchester, New Hampshire.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Sartain's Union Magazine [edited by Caroline M. Kirkland], September 1847, pp. 111-13.
1847
D. Gussman
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The White Hills in October
Star-crossed lovers, filial piety, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, off-season tourism.
The narrator presents the journal of a trip to the White Mountains by Mary Langdon, a young American woman, who has just ended a relationship with her German lover due to her father's disapproval. A mysterious stranger appears at a significant moment and changes the young woman's fortunes.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. [published anonymously]
Harper's New Monthly Magazine [edited by Alfred A. Guernsey] (December 1856): 44-56.
1856
Margaret Erickson, D. Gussman
The Continental Monthly [by C. M. Sedgwick] (October 1862): 423-44.
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A Day in a Railroad Car
New England, railroads, travel, women, orphans
The protagonist of the story encounters a peculiar young girl traveling alone by the name of Lizzy Dale when she takes a train car into Boston to see an old friend.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Author of "Hope Leslie," "Home", "Letters from Abroad," &c.
<em>Tales and Sketche</em>s, second series
Harper & Brothers
1844
L. Damon-Bach
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"The Irish Girl"
Prejudice against Irish immigrants, Catholics, Protestants, love, Christian virtue.
A young Irish servant is in love with a man whose father will not let him marry her because she is a “Paddy girl.” The young woman drowns, shortly after learning of her beloved's decision to marry a non-Irish woman. Her brother vows revenge, but changes his mind.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
By the author of "Hope Leslie," &c.
United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vol. X, P. 129-140
John L. O'Sullivan
February 1842
J. Robinson, D. Gussman
Also collected (with revisions) in:
The Dollar Magazine, Vol. II, 1842
Tales and Sketches, Series two, New York. 1842. P. 191-244
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