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Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Secondary Materials and Criticism
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Letters
- Life and Letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick, ed. Mary E. Dewey.
New York: Harper, 1871. Unfinished autobiography and letters.
Other
- "Le Bossu." Tales of Glauber-Spa, vol 1, 25-108. New
York: Harper, 1832.
- "A Memoir of Lucretia Maria Davidson." In Lives of Sir
William Phips, Israel Putnam, Lucretia Maria Davidson, and David Rittenhouse,
edited by Jared Sparks, 219-94. Boston: Hilliard, Gray & London: Kennett,
1837.
Modern Edition
- Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts, edited with
an introduction by Mary Kelley. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1987.
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. A New England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England
Character and Manners. Ed. Victoria Clements. Early American Women
Writers Series. New York: Oxford UP, 1995.
Biographies
- Beach, Seth Curtis. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick." In Daughters
of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies, 1-39. Boston: American
Unitarian Association, 1905.
- Brooks, Gladys. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick." In Three Wise
Virgins, 157-244. New York: Dutton, 1957.
- Sedgwick, Sarah Cabot & Christina Sedgwick Marquand. "The
Village Becomes Literary." In Stockbridge, 1739-1974, 205-24.
Stockbridge, MA: Berkshire Traveller, 1974.
Bibliography
- Bibliography of American Literature, compiled by Jacob Blanck.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1955-1991.
Selected Criticism
- Bauermeister, Erica R. "The Lamplighter, The Wide, Wide World,
and Hope Leslie: Reconsidering the Recipes for Nineteenth-Century American
Women’s Novels." Legacy 8 (Spring 1991): 17-28.
- Bell, Micheal Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine
Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie." AQ 22 (Summer 1970): 213-21.
- Birdsall, Richard D. "William Cullen Bryant and Catharine Sedgwick:
Their Debt to Berkshire." NEQ 28 (September 1955): 349-71.
- Cowie, Alexander. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick." In The Rise
of the American Novel, 200-12. New York: American Book, 1948.
- Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. New York: Twayne,
1974.
- Freibert, Lucy M. & Barbara A. White, eds. Hidden Hands: An
Anthology of American Women Writers, 1790-1870. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers UP, 1985.
- Gidez, Richard Banus. "A Study of the Works of Catharine Maria
Sedgwick." Dissertation, Ohio State U, 1958.
- Harris, Susan K. "Preludes: The Early Didactic Novel. Narrative
Control in Charlotte Temple and A New-England Tale." In 19th-Century
American Women’s Novels: Interpretative Strategies, 39-59. New York:
Cambridge UP, 1990.
- Kelley, Mary. "A Woman Alone: Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Spinsterhood
in Nineteenth-Century America." NEQ 51 (June 1978): 209-25.
- Kelley. "Negotiating a Self: The Autobiography and Journals of
Catharine Maria Sedgwick." NEQ 66 (September 1993): 366-98.
- Singley, Carol J. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie: Radical
Frontier Romance." In Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature
on the American Frontier, ed. Eric Heyne, 110-22. New York: Twayne,
1992.
- Welsh, Sister Mary Michael. Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Her Position
in the Literature and Thought of Her Time Up to 1860. Washington: Catholic
U, 1937.
- Westbrook, Perry D. "Two Berskshire Authors: William Cullen Bryant
and Catharine Maria Sedgwick." In A Literary History of New England,
102-15. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh UP, 1988.

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