Sedgwick, Catharine Maria

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789 - 1867) was an American novelist and was born in Massachusetts. She wrote both domestic and historical novels and is best known for her most popular work, Hope Leslie (1827), which concerns a dramatic conflict between British colonists and Native Americans. Her first novel was A New - England Tale (1822). Sedgwick also worked for a number of periodicals and produced a variety of books, such asMarried or Single? (1857), andLive and Let Live. ;

American novelist, Sedgwick is admired for her domestic fiction. She wrote pamphlets against religious intolerance. She is widely read and is the most famous women writer in America. Her writings are moralistic and contain vivid description of nature. ;