Lifespan: 1789-1867
Nationality: American
Genres: Domestic Fiction
Types of Work: Novels
Contemporaries:
Style: American settings, patriotic, protested Puritan oppressiveness, detailed descriptions of nature, spirited heroines who do not conform to the stereotypical woman of the time.
Bio: Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born December 28, 1789 in Stockbridge, Massachusets. Her mother was Pamela Dwight, member of the New England Dwight family, and her father was Theodore Sedgwick, a prosperous lawyer and politician. She attended finishing school in Boston. One of her schoolmates, Susan Anne Ridley (Sedgwick), a fellow author, later became her sister-in-law.
Catharine took charge of a school in Lenox as a young woman. She made a good living from her writing. She died in 1867, and was buried in Stockbridge, Massachusets.
Novels:
A New-England Tale (1822)
Redwood (1824)
Hope Leslie (1827)
Clarence (1830)
The Twin Lives of Edwin Robbins (1832)
The Linwoods (1835)
Home (Boston, 1835)
The Poor Rich Man, and the Rich Poor Man (New York, 1837)
Live and Let Live
The Boy of Mount Rhigi (1848)
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