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
"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
English
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