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Author Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867

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
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 168 pages)
Series Early American women writers
Early American women writers.
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
Analysis English fiction
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxi-xxxii)
Notes Print version record
Subject Orphans -- New England -- Fiction
Girls -- New England -- Fiction
FICTION -- Coming of Age.
Girls
Manners and customs
Orphans
SUBJECT New England -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject New England
Genre/Form Fiction
Bildungsromans.
Form Electronic book
Author Clements, Victoria, 1956-
ISBN 1429401249
9781429401241
9780195093278
0195093275
9786610527748
6610527741
Other Titles Sketches of New England character and manners