Jane Elton, orphaned as a young girl, goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Wilson, a selfish and overbearing woman who practices a repressive Calvinism. In their rural New England village, Jane grows up yearning to break free from Mrs. Wilson's tyranny and find her place as a citizen of the evolving American Republic. She is helped by her encounters with characters who embody various shadings of moral, religious, and civic virtue: the affectionate servant Mary Hull, a pious Methodist; Mr. Lloyd, a kind Quaker; Crazy Bet, emotional, sympathetic, but deeply unstable; and Old John, bereaved but wise....
Jane Elton, orphaned as a young girl, goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Wilson, a selfish and overbearing woman who practices a repressive Calvinism. In...
Written in 1822, Catharine Sedgwick's first novel concerns the moral and religious development of a young orphan girl in rural New England. It provides an intriguing sketch of the social, political and religious climate of early America.
Written in 1822, Catharine Sedgwick's first novel concerns the moral and religious development of a young orphan girl in rural New England. It provide...
Hope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans' subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws.
"This handsome reprint ... makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeeth-century Puritans, and their relations with the indigenous Indian population." -- Nineteeth-Century Literature
" A splendidly conceived...
Hope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans'...
This early work, originally published in 1842 is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Unusually progressive for the time it was published, Sedgwick s novel contains strong feminist overtones and notions of justice towards Native Americans. In this, her third novel, Sedgwick recounts a dramatic conflict between colonists, Native Americans and the British Empire. A fascinating novel that earned its author a large readership and healthy reputation and is still an interesting read today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now...
This early work, originally published in 1842 is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Unusually progressive for the time it was publi...
Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America s first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women s right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives.
Sedgwick s touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must...
Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum Am...
