Wilton Harvey and Other Tales. Increasing interest in women's rights after reading Margaret Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Visited Stockbridge for the last time; remainder of her life spent principally in the home of her niece Katherine Maria Sedgwick Minot outside Boston. Died July 31; buried in Stockbridge cemetery with her brothers and parents.
Detailed Description of the Collection Part I. Catharine Maria Sedgwick papers I, Part I contains correspondence, journals for the years , some miscellaneous writings, an autograph album, a Sedgwick genealogy, and other papers of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Loose papers, These papers consist primarily of correspondence between Catharine Maria Sedgwick and her niece Katharine Sedgwick Minot for the years Reel 1 Box 1. Reel 2 Box 2. Reel 3 Box 3.
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Reel 18 Box 5. Index of Correspondents Listed below are the names of all known correspondents appearing in this collection. A Aikin, Lucy, 10 [1. Cummings, 12 [3. Sedgwick was immediately recognized as one of the writers creating an indigenous American literature.
Republican motherhood means that children should be raised to value patriotism and to sacrifice their own needs for the greater good of the country. Sons were encouraged to pursue roles in government, while daughters were more educated than they previously had been allowed in order to pass these values on to the next generation. It also revises traditional notions of submissive womanhood by arguing that women must recognize their domestic sphere as empowering and act as agents for the preservation and promotion of moral values.
Clarence; or, A Tale of Our Own Times is a novel of manners — a literary genre that deals with aspects of behavior, language, customs and values characteristic of a particular class of people in a specific historical context.
Clarence follows heiress Gertrude Clarence as she negotiates the perils of the marriage market in New York City. In this novel, Sedgwick often satirizes the privileged aristocracy to which her family belonged. Live and Let Live; or, Domestic Service Illustrated depicts the ideal workplaces for working-class women to develop domestic skills.
Sedgwick wrote work in American settings, and combined patriotism with protests against historic Puritan oppressiveness. She created spirited heroines who did not conform to the stereotypical conduct of women at the time.
In her final novel, Married or Single , she put forth the bold idea that women should not marry if it meant they would lose their self-respect but she married off her heroine. Throughout her life Sedgwick was ambivalent about her position as a single woman. Although she later criticized her haphazard education, which was completed through a miscellany of district and boarding schools, Sedgwick credited her father with developing her interest in self-improvement, a practice he considered vital for American citizens.
In , after a particularly severe bout, Mrs. Sedgwick died; six years later Justice Sedgwick followed her into eternity. Catharine, aged 23, was parentless.
Eventually abandoning Calvinistic doctrine for the more compassionate tenets of Unitarianism, Sedgwick began writing a tract on religion that gradually evolved into her first novel, A New-England Tale This novel met with such positive feedback from both readers and critics that Sedgwick quickly composed three further novels, including Hope Leslie , the tale of race relations in colonial Massachusetts for which she is most recognized by modern scholarship.
In each of these novels, Sedgwick employed a historical or contemporary setting calculated to highlight tensions between social class and personal character, a tension that further enabled Sedgwick to expound the republican ideals in which her father had schooled her.
In these diverse pieces, she exhorted her readers to pursue social exaltation through the achievement of personal superiority. In these letters, Sedgwick reflected on European customs, comparing them extensively and almost always disadvantageously with their American counterparts.
Thus, by the time the mid-nineteenth-century American literary scene heralded the figures for which it is now best known — Edgar A. This latter assertion, rooted as equally in racism as in realism, serves only to elevate her motives for the modern reader. This perspective appeared even in her earliest writings, such as in the preface of Hope Leslie , in which she succinctly expresses her position:. The liberal philanthropist will not be offended by a representation which supposes that the elements of virtue and intellect are not withheld from any branch of the human family; and the enlightened and accurate observer of human nature, will admit that the difference of character among the various races of the earth, arises mainly from difference of condition.
Shortly after moving to Boston to reside with her favorite niece and namesake, Kate Sedgwick Minot, Sedwick herself died of old age on July 31, After her death, Mary E.
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