Biographies

Foster, Edward Halsey. Catherine Maria Sedgwick. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1974, 171 p.

Offers a full-length biography of Sedgwick.

Kelley, Mary. "Catherine Maria Sedgwick, 1789-1867." Legacy 6, no. 2 (fall 1989): 43-50.

Provides a biographical and critical overview.

——. "A Woman Alone: Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Spinsterhood in Nineteenth-Century America." New England Quarterly 51, no. 2 (June 1978): 209-25.

Compares the feminine ideal that Sedgwick professed in her fiction with the realities of her personal life.

Saulsbury, Rebecca R. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)." In Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, edited by Denise D. Knight, pp. 351-60. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997.

Offers an overview of Sedgwick's life, her major works and themes, and the critical reception of her writing.

Criticism

Bauermeister, Erica R. "The Lamplighter, The Wide, Wide, World and Hope Leslie: Reconsidering Recipes for Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels." Legacy 8, no. 1 (spring 1991): 17-28.

Provides a comparative study of three novels written by...