WorkCatharine Maria Sedgwick

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Means and Ends (1839), inferred

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789–1867) · 1839

InferredNamed explicitly as 'Miss Sedgwick' — Catharine Maria Sedgwick, the leading American female novelist of the period.

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Documented 1845

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When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood

II. Adolescence

III. Self-Directed

IV. Transcendentalist

V. New York1record

VI. Europe

✦. Memoirs (1852)

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Woman in the Nineteenth Century

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“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.