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Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.4/5 ( ratings)
Born
December 27 1789
Died
3030 07 18671867
Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born December 28, 1789 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As a young woman, Sedgwick took charge of a school in Lenox. She converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism, which led her to write a pamphlet denouncing religious intolerance. This further inspired her to write her first novel, A New-England Tale.

With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals. She died in 1867, and by the end of the 19th century, she had been relegated to near obscurity. There was a rise of male critics who deprecated women's writing as they worked to create an American literature.

Interest in Sedgwick's works and an appreciation of her contribution to American literature has been stimulated by the late 20th century's feminist movement. Beginning in the 1960s, feminist scholars began to re-evaluate women's contributions to literature and other arts, and created new frames of reference for considering their work. In addition, the advent of low-cost electronic reproductions, which became available at the end of the 20th century, made Sedgwick and other nineteenth-century authors' work more accessible for study and pleasure.

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.4/5 ( ratings)
Born
December 27 1789
Died
3030 07 18671867
Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born December 28, 1789 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. As a young woman, Sedgwick took charge of a school in Lenox. She converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism, which led her to write a pamphlet denouncing religious intolerance. This further inspired her to write her first novel, A New-England Tale.

With her work much in demand, from the 1820s to the 1850s, Sedgwick made a good living writing short stories for a variety of periodicals. She died in 1867, and by the end of the 19th century, she had been relegated to near obscurity. There was a rise of male critics who deprecated women's writing as they worked to create an American literature.

Interest in Sedgwick's works and an appreciation of her contribution to American literature has been stimulated by the late 20th century's feminist movement. Beginning in the 1960s, feminist scholars began to re-evaluate women's contributions to literature and other arts, and created new frames of reference for considering their work. In addition, the advent of low-cost electronic reproductions, which became available at the end of the 20th century, made Sedgwick and other nineteenth-century authors' work more accessible for study and pleasure.

Books from Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

3.3/5 ( ratings)

A New-England Tale

3.1/5 ( ratings)

La nueva mujer. Relatos de escritoras estadounidenses del siglo XIX

4/5 ( ratings)

The Linwoods; or Sixty Years Since in America

3.7/5 ( ratings)

The Boy of Mount Rhigi

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Clarence: Or, a Tale of Our Own Times

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Married or Single?

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Hope Leslie Volume 1

2.8/5 ( ratings)

The Travellers A Tale. Designed for Young People.

2.6/5 ( ratings)

Old Maids: Short Stories by Nineteenth Century U.S. Women Writers

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Live and Let Live

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Poor Rich Man And The Rich Poor Man

2/5 ( ratings)

The Token, for 1831

2/5 ( ratings)

Verheirathet oder ledig? : Novelle / von der Verfasserin von : "Hope Leslie," "Redwood" 2c. 2c. ; Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Marie Heine. Volume v.3 1858 [Leather Bound]

2/5 ( ratings)

Letters from abroad to kindred at home, by the author of 'Hope Leslie,' 'Poor rich man and the rich poor man,' 'Live and let live,' &c., &c. Volume v.1 1841 [Leather Bound]

2/5 ( ratings)

Married or single? / by the author of "Hope Leslie". 1858 [Leather Bound]

2/5 ( ratings)

Married or single? / by the author of "Hope Leslie". Volume v.2 1858 [Leather Bound]

2/5 ( ratings)

Hope Leslie; or, Early times in the Massachusetts. By the author of "The Linwoods," "Poor rich man" ... Volume v.2 1842 [Leather Bound]

2/5 ( ratings)

Letters from abroad to kindred at home

2/5 ( ratings)
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