Catharine Maria Sedgwick (Author of Hope Leslie)

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Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Born

in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, The United States

December 28, 1789

Died

July 31, 1867

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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.

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	Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Carolyn L. Karcher (Editor) 3.38 avg rating — 1,779 ratings — published 1827 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New-England Tale by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan K. Harris, Emily Van Dette (Annotations) 3.17 avg rating — 214 ratings — published 1822 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy of Mount Rhigi 4.38 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 1848 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Linwoods; or Sixty Years Since in America by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Maria Karafilis (Editor) 3.64 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1835 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Clarence: or, A Tale of Our Own Times by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Melissa J. Homestead (Editor), Ellen A. Foster (Editor) 3.74 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1830 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Married or Single? 3.44 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1857 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope Leslie 3.44 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2013 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cacoethes Scribendi 3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1830	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hope Leslie Volume 1 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1826 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Power of Her Sympathy: The Autobiography and Journal of Catherine Maria Sedgwick 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

tags: black, color, emotion, feeling, light

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“Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home. There there is a living and breathing spirit infused into nature: every familiar object has a history鈥攖he trees have tongues, and the very air is vocal. There the vesture of decay doth not close in and control the noble functions of the soul. It sees and hears and enjoys without the ministry of gross material substance.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie, or Early Times in the Massachusetts, Vol. 1 of 2

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“Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.”
― Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

tags: husband, love, marriage, relationship, romance, wedding, wife

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June 2017 Old School Classic Poll

Othello by William Shakespeare, 1603, 314 pages

44 votes, 14.3%

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell, 1848, 437 pages

40 votes, 13.0%

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, 1889, 416 pages

34 votes, 11.1%

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, 1593, 291 pages

31 votes, 10.1%

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, 1862, 244 pages

27 votes, 8.8%

The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper, 1826, 410 pages

23 votes, 7.5%

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle, 1883, 400 pages

22 votes, 7.2%

Hunger by Knut Hamsun, 1890, 134 pages

20 votes, 6.5%

The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, 1353, 909 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe, 1790, 256 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 1764, 125 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard, 1885, 264 pages

13 votes, 4.2%

A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov, 1840, 185 pages

12 votes, 3.9%

Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 1827, 399 pages

2 votes, 0.7%

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