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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Red and black cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering. Illustrated with frontis scene of the Sedgwick house at Stockbridge and two frontis portraits of Sedgwick with tissue guards. Less common title. Boards with moderate wear and soiling; edges frayed; interior fly leaves removed; pages dusty with age toning. Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789 - 1867), was a popular American novelist born in Stockbridge, MA. Sedgwick became one of the most notable female novelists of her time. She wrote work in American settings, and combined patriotism with protests against historic Puritan oppressiveness and religious intolerance. Her topics contributed to the creation of a national literature, enhanced by her detailed descriptions of nature. Sedgwick created spirited heroines who did not conform to the stereotypical conduct of women at the time. …