Berkeley Jail
Prison, Loyalty, Love, Native Americans
The narrator recounts the story of the Vassal family, whose only surviving member and an old family servant rescue a Native American man, held for the murder of a local white property owner.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
<em>The Atlantic Souvenir</em>, Philadelphia: Carey and Lea, 1831: 13-53
Carey and Lea
1831
Shawn Riggins, Ciara Freeman, D. Gussman
English
Look Before You Leap
Marriage, courtship, love vs. reason.
A mother tells her daughters the story of a young woman who decided to marry an older man of whom she was fond but not passionately in love.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. (January 1846): 13-17.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West.
January 1846
Kristina Curtis; D. Gussman
Collected in The Irving Offering, 168-86. New York: Leavitt, & Company, 1851. [pub. 1850]
English
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New-Year's Day
Stock market speculation, love, and marriage.
A young man borrows money from his intended fiance's father and, after the stock market collapses, is estranged from her and family. Unbeknownst to the other, he works to repay her father, and she remains true to her love for him.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine (February 1846): 83-89.
Edited by John Inman and Robert A. West
1846
Heather Harman; D. Gussman
Also collected in The Gem of the Season for 1849. New York: Leavitt, Trow & Co., 1849.
English
New Year's Day
Love vs. filial duty, and New Year's day traditions.
A young woman is rewarded for her filial obedience with the love and respect of her family and community, and the hand of the young she loves.
Sedgwick, Catharine M.
The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, edited by S[amuel] G. Goodrich, 11-31.
Boston: Charles Bowen
1836 [pub. 1835]
D. Gussman
English
Story
West Point
West Point as a summer resort and its relation to the Revolutionary War.
The narrator describes West Point's attractions for visitors, and relates a story about General Kosciusko and his former servant, Agrippa Hull.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Juvenile Miscellany [edited by Lydia M. Child]
November and December 1833
L. Damon-Bach, D. Gussman
English
A Huguenot Family
Catholic persecution of French Protestants in the 17th century.
A story that chronicles the trials of the d’Argile family during the Catholic persecution of the Huguenots—French Protestants—in 1672 under the reign of the “Sun King,” Louis XIV.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
Godey's Lady's Book [edited by Sarah Josepha Hale], September and October 1842, pp. 144-48 and 189-93.
1842
Jenifer Elmore, Miriam Alcala, Madison Brockman, Stephanie Daniels, Olivia Taylor, D. Gussman
Collected (with minor revisions) in Catharine Sedgwick, Tales and Sketches, Second Series, 249-89, New York: Harper & Bros., 1844; collected in Catharine Sedgwick, The Irish Girl and Other Tales, 54-94, London: Kent & Richards, and Edinburgh: J. Menzies, 1850.
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Who, and What, Has Not Failed
The Panic of 1837
The narrator reflects on responses to the US financial crisis of 1837, focusing on a family whose daughter is about to be married, and offers an alternative to panic and despair.
Sedgwick, Catharine Maria.
New-Yorker, June 17, 1837, p. 199.
1837
D. Gussman
English
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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.
English
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