Catharine Maria Sedgwick (28 December 1789-31 July 1867), novelist, was born and lived most of her life at the family estate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. She was educated both in schools and at home, though her early life was devoted to social...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick was considered by readers and critics of antebellum America to be a key figure in the establishment of the national literature. Her fiction is particularly American in subject and setting, and Sedgwick modestly considered her...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick's works were ranked in her time with those of her contemporaries James Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. Indeed, her lasting legacy is that, like Cooper, she brought the culture and flavor of an American region--in this...

A popular as well as critically acclaimed writer in her own time, Sedgwick is best remembered for her novels depicting colonial and early-nineteenth-century New England life. Sedgwick's contemporaries praised her use of distinctly American...

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (December 28, 1789 – July 31, 1867), was an American novelist of what is now referred to as domestic fiction. Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of a prosperous lawyer and successful politician, Theodore...

Edited by Lucinda L. Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002. 328 pp. $40.00. Lucinda L. Damon-Bach and Victoria Clements's edited collection of critical essays on the work of Catharine Maria Sedgwick makes a valuable contribution to the study of nineteenth-century...

Although Catharine Maria Sedgwick lived and wrote in New York City nearly half her adult life, her status as a notable New Yorker has become involved in ambiguities and contradictions. In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe situated Sedgwick in Knickerbocker circles with "Irving, Cooper, Padding,...

In the following essay, Gould illustrates how Sedgwick uses a revisionist account of the Pequot War to present a larger cultural debate over the nature of citizenship in the early American republic.

In the following essay, Kelley appraises Sedgwick's autobiography and journals in the context of the larger contemporary political and ideological landscape in which they were written.

In the following essay, Lamonaca examines and compares the impact of Catharine Sedgwick's and Anna Jameson's “domestic advice manuals” and “conduct books” on nineteenth century women.