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Slavery in New England
Tags: 1853, A Midsummer Night's Dream, anti-slavery, Beatrice Cenci, Bentley's Miscellany, Berkshires, Caliban, Charles Follen, child abuse, Church Membership, Declaration of Independence, Eden, Elizabeth Freeman, freedom, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Martineau, incest, Jack Cade, Massachusetts, Mum-Bett, Mumbet, Nick Bottom, servant, Shakespeare, Shay's Rebellion, Sheffield, slavery, Society in America, The Tempest, Theodore Sedgwick, Uncle Toby, Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Vision
A Huguenot Family
Tags: 1842, Catholic, childbirth, crucifix, Edict of Nantes, emigration, France, Godey's Lady's Book, heretic, Historical fiction, Huguenot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Sevigne, Madame Montespan, martyrs, midwife, mother, New World, persecution, physician, Poitu, Prison, prison escape, Protestant, Sarah Josepha Hale, servants, sons, Tales and Sketches - Second Series
Full Thirty
Tags: 1836, As You Like It, bachelors, boarding house, camelias, class, coming out, Cymbeline, fashion, Female education, fire insurance stock, Grace Church, Harpers, heroism, King Lear, Ladies' Depository, marriage, May-December romance, Much Ado About Nothing, New York City, Pyramus and Thisbe, self reliance, Shakespeare, society, The 1835 Great Fire of New York, The Tempest, The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, the unconscious, Wall Street, women and work
Varieties of Social Life in New York
Tags: "Lovely Young Jessie", 1846, Antonio Canova, China, class, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, domestic arts, education, fashion, hospsitality, hostess, India, Joseph Fourier, Lord Chesterfield, manners, missionaries, New York City, Ole Bull, Paris, Quakers, Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, sculpture, Scylla and Charybdis, Society of Friends, soirees, The Gem of the Season, transcendentalism, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Wall Street, West Indies
Cousin Frank
Tags: 1843, bachelors, benevolence, Charles Dickens, cousin, Croton Aqueduct, Don Quioxte, Edward Bulwer Lytton, George Washington, Giulia Grisi, John Milton, Ludwig van Beethoven, Luigi Lablache, marriage, Pickwick, service, single life, Tales and Sketches - Second Series, Thomas Gray, United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Vincenzo Bellini, vocation
Uncle David
A New-England Sabbath
Tags: 1827, Hope Leslie, New-England, Puritans, Robert Burns, Sabbath, The Casket, village life
The Good Son
Truth Versus Fiction
Tags: 1847, 4th of July, Consumption, daughters, Death, domesticity, fathers, fiction, filial duty, God, humility, invalid, labor, Louis XIV, Madame de Genlis, Madame de Stael, Mathew Carey, Methodist, New England, non-fiction, sewing, step-mother, submission, suffering, Ten Commandments, The Columbian Magazine, virtue, West