Author
Catharine Maria Sedgwick is documented in Fuller’s letters, books, and published essays (1840–1846). 2 distinct works are named, most often in Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “analyzed”.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“I come now with satisfaction to my own country, and to a writer, a female writer, whom I have selected as the clearest, wisest, and kindliest, who has as yet, used pen here on these subjects. This is Miss Sedgwick”
This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.
Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.
“it seemed much nearer one's ideal than Cooper's or Miss Sedgwick's fancy sketches”
Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. II. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984.
Inferred Hudspeth identified the works as Hope Leslie (New York, 1827) and Tales and Sketches (Philadelphia, 1835).
“I come now with satisfaction to my own country, and to a writer, a female writer, whom I have selected as the clearest, wisest, and kindliest, who has as yet, used pen here on these subjects.”
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Greeley & McElrath, 1845.
Inferred Named explicitly as 'Miss Sedgwick' — Catharine Maria Sedgwick, the leading American female novelist of the period.
“The name of Sedgwick alone is a recommendation to the school: It is associated with candor, benevolence and knowledge of the physical and moral laws”
Fuller, Margaret. "School of the Misses Sedgwick." New-York Daily Tribune, 25 August 1845. · 25 August 1845
“Miss Sedgwick and others have portrayed, with skill and feeling, scenes and personages from the revolutionary time.”
Fuller, Margaret. "American Literature." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 September 1846. · 23 September 1846
“So in this book we find what Cooper, Miss Sedgwick, and Mrs. Kirkland might see, as the writer did, but could hardly believe in enough”
Fuller, Margaret. "Ellen; Or Forgive and Forget . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 January 1846. · 10 January 1846
“Miss Sedgwick and others have portrayed, with skill and feeling, scenes and personages from the revolutionary time. Such have a permanent value in proportion as their subject is fleeting.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p307
Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p307; page given is to the 1869 reprint.