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)

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