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A New-England tale, or, Sketches of New England character and manners

Title: A New-England tale, or, Sketches of New England character and manners / Catharine Maria Sedgwick ; edited and with an introduction by Victoria Clements ; foreword by Cathy N. Davidson.
Author: Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867.
Publication: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Description

168 pages; 20 cm.

Summary

The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted in its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective.
Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of the many novels, tales, and short magazine pieces Catharine Sedgwick published during her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral trials she faces as she grows up, this early example of the popular nineteenth-century women's novel provides a unique look at the religious and social climate at this crucial period in America's national development.
Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as concerns of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs.

Series Statement

Early American women writers

Uniform Title

Early American women writers.

Alternative Title

Sketches of New England character and manners.

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Genre/Form

Bildungsromans.

Note

Previously published: A New-England tale; or, sketches of New-England charater and manners. New York : E. Bliss & E. White, 1822.

Bibliography (note)

ISBN

0195093275

LCCN

94043033

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries