Catharine Sedgwick - Writings

Writings

Novels:

  • A New-England Tale (1822)
  • Redwood (1824)
  • Hope Leslie (1827)
  • Clarence (1830)
  • The Twin Lives of Edwin Robbins (1832)
  • The Linwoods (1835)
  • Home (Boston, 1835)
  • The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man (New York, 1837)
  • Live and Let Live

(See Richard Bushman, Refinement in America, 1992, pp. 276–79 for a discussion of the above three novels)

  • The Boy of Mount Rhigi (1848)
  • Married or Single? (1857)

Other Writings:

  • Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home, in two volumes (1841)
  • Slavery in New England, in Bentley's Miscellany (1853), based on the experience of her governess and parents' housekeeper, African American ex-slave Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)

Read more about this topic:  Catharine Sedgwick

Famous quotes containing the word writings:

    “In this part of the world it is considered a ground for complaint if a man’s writings admit of more than one interpretation.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “An able reader often discovers in other people’s writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “Accursed who brings to light of day
    The writings I have cast away.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)