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A New-England Tale

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Jane Elton, orphaned as a young girl, goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Wilson, a selfish and overbearing woman who practices a repressive Calvinism. In their rural New England village, Jane grows up yearning to break free from Mrs. Wilson's tyranny and find her place as a citizen of the evolving American Republic. She is helped by her encounters with characters who embody various shadings of moral, religious, and civic virtue: the affectionate servant Mary Hull, a pious Methodist; Mr. Lloyd, a kind Quaker; Crazy Bet, emotional, sympathetic, but deeply unstable; and Old John, bereaved but wise. Ultimately, A New-England Tale is about the connection between parenting and governing, and the key role women play in shaping a fledgling nation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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0142437123

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Hope Leslie

or Early Times in Massachusetts

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Hope Leslie

or Early Times in Massachusetts

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Stirring novel of 17th-century New England features spirited female characters who defy Puritanical society, engaging in cross-cultural friendships, challenging bigotry, and providing a captivating portrait of women's roles in the new republic.

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386

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Courier Corporation

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0486148297

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9780486148298

Married Or Single?

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Married Or Single?

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary forms--including the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fiction--and provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick's lifelong concern with women's duties to the nation as citizens is demonstrated through her depiction of exemplary women of various backgrounds and circumstances who illustrate the idea that becoming a worthy human being is more important than becoming a wife, especially in a democratic society.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803274971

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9780803274976

A Love Token for Children - Designed for Sunday-School, Libraries

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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A Love Token for Children - Designed for Sunday-School, Libraries

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

A Love Token for Children" is an 1844 collection of short stories by Catherine Maria Sedgwick. Originally designed for inclusion in Sunday-School Libraries, the stories revolve around issues of morality and ethics, tackling subjects such ad drinking, gambling, debt, etc. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789 - 1867) was an American novelist and prominent supporter of Republican motherhood whose work is frequently referred to as "domestic fiction." Other notable works by this author include: "Hope Leslie" (1827), "The Linwoods" (1835), "Live and Let Live" (1837). The stories include: "The Widow Ellis and her son Willie," "The Magic Lamp," "Our Robins," "Old River," "The Chain of Love," "Mill-hill," "Mill-hill (Part Second)," and "The Bantem." Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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1473337968

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9781473337961

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted it its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of Catharine Sedgwick's twenty novels in addition to the one hundred short magazine pieces she published in her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral and religious trials she faces as she grows up, this intriguing portrait provides a unique look at the religious and political climate of this crucial period in America's development as a country. Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as theoretical issues of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic nineteenth-century story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs.

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Oxford University Press

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0198025351

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9780198025351

Hope Leslie

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Hope Leslie

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Catharine Maria Sedgwick was a prominent American novelist of the 19th century whose work did a great deal to bring women's issues into the public sphere. Her progressive narratives, set against the Puritanical morally conservative values of her time, advocated for greater female equality. Set in 17th century New England, "Hope Leslie" tells the tale of a young New England Puritan woman and her dynamic experiences in recently founded America. The novel is noted for its groundbreaking and sympathetic treatment of Native Americans. Hope Leslie, the protagonist, works her way through romance and cultural conflict in this intense historical drama. The work has become central to scholarship of early gender studies and race relations as it examines with scrutiny the seeds of these cultural issues. "Hope Leslie" helped to alter the fabric of American literature, situated among the likes of Charles Brockden Brown and James Fenimore Cooper. The novel that made Catharine Maria Sedgwick famous, "Hope Leslie", remains a classic of early American fiction. This edition is printed in premium acid-free paper.

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266

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142096934X

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9781420969344

Tales of City Life. I. The City Clerk II. "Life is Sweet"

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Tales of City Life. I. The City Clerk II. "Life is Sweet"

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Tales of City Life" is a is a 1861 work by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. It comprises two short stories, "The City Clerk" and "'Life is Sweet'", both of which offer the reader an authentic insight into day-to-day city life in nineteenth-century America. This book is highly recommended for those with an interest in American history, and it is not to be missed by fans of Sedgwick's work. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789 - 1867) was an American novelist and prominent supporter of Republican motherhood whose work is frequently referred to as "domestic fiction". Other notable works by this author include: "Hope Leslie" (1827), "The Linwoods" (1835), "Live and Let Live" (1837). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

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Read Books Ltd

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1473344484

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9781473344488

Hope Leslie

Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Hope Leslie

Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. At the center of the novel are two friends. Hope Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society, fights for justice for the Indians and asserts the independence of women. Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief, braves her father's wrath to save a white man and risks her freedom to reunite Hope with her long-lost sister, captured as a child by the Pequots and now married to Magawisca's brother. Amply plotted, with unforgettable characters, Hope Leslie is a rich, compelling, deeply satisfying novel.

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420

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Rutgers University Press

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0813512220

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9780813512228

The Linwoods, Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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The Linwoods, Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Back in Print -- A historical romance set during the American Revolution.

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UPNE

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1584651539

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Married Or Single?

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Married Or Single?

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Clarence

or, A Tale of Our Own Times

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Clarence

or, A Tale of Our Own Times

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Honorable mention recipient for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Award. A pioneering American novel of manners first published in 1830, Catharine Sedgwick’s Clarence follows heiress Gertrude Clarence as she negotiates the perils of the marriage market in New York City. Giving Gertrude’s family English and Caribbean histories, Sedgwick aligns the United States in the 1820s with a larger Atlantic world. This edition of Sedgwick’s cosmopolitan novel will contribute to a rethinking both of the history of the American novel of manners and to the shape of Sedgwick’s career as one of the most important novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from Sedgwick’s correspondence and journals reconstructing the origins of the novel, engravings and lithographs of key sites in the novel, American and British reviews of the novel, and documentation of the author’s revised edition of 1849.

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1551118610

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9781551118611

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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Oxford University Press

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0190282487

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A New-England Tale

By: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

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A New-England Tale

A New-England Tale

Hope Leslie

Hope Leslie

Married Or Single?

Married Or Single?

A Love Token for Children - Designed for Sunday-School, Libraries

A Love Token for Children - Designed for Sunday-School, Libraries

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

Hope Leslie

Hope Leslie

Tales of City Life. I. The City Clerk II. "Life is Sweet"

Tales of City Life. I. The City Clerk II. "Life is Sweet"

Hope Leslie

Hope Leslie

The Linwoods, Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America

The Linwoods, Or, "Sixty Years Since" in America

Married Or Single?

Married Or Single?

Clarence

Clarence

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners

A New-England Tale

A New-England Tale

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