Front Matter
• The following version of this novel was used to create this Lesson Plan: Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie; or Early Times in the Massachusetts, 1827. Edited by Carloyn L. Karcher, Penguin, 1998.
• Karcher offers acknowledgements of assistance given, as well as a dedication to her students.
• Beginning her introduction, Karcher quotes 1829 commentary about Sedgwick in Ladies’ Magazine that lauds the author.
• Karcher cites the credentials of the reviewer, Lydia Maria Child, and her further praise of Sedgwick.
• Karcher also notes the influence Sedgwick exerts on such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe and Maria Cummins, both in literary technique and in legitimizing writing prose fiction by women.
• The esteem in which Sedgwick’s male peers held her is also noted, with William Cullen Bryant and Edgar Allan Poe referenced as writing in her favor.
• Karcher notes Sedgwick’s predecessors as American woman novelists, Susanna Rowson and Hanna Webster Foster...
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