Catharine Maria Sedgwick
(1789 - 1867)
American novelist.
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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...
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None of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's short story collections is in print today, but from the 1820s to the 1850s she was extremely popular. In fact, she has been called the best-known American female wri...
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Catharine Maria Sedgwick enjoyed both critical and popular acclaim during her lifetime for her novels, short stories, sketches, and advice manuals as well as for her sole contribution to the genre of ...
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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...
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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 ...
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Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
