Catharine Maria Sedgwick Secondary Materials and Criticism

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.