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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 7: fiction II--contemporaries of Cooper. (search)
are two other writers famous in their day, Catherine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) and Lydia Maria Child (1802-80), who, through long and busily useful years, touched fiction here and there, both beginning with historical romances in the early days of The spy's fame and later drifting to more solid shores with the tide of realism. Less gifted than Neal, both had greater charm. Mrs. Child is remembered for her devoted opposition to slavery, but Miss Sedgwick was the more important novelist. Redwood (1824), Hope Leslie (1827), and The Linwoods (1835), her best and most popular stories, exhibit almost every convention of the fiction of her day. One novelist of New England before Hawthorne, however, still has a wide, healthy public. Daniel Pierce Thompson (1795-1868) knew the Vermont frontier as Cooper knew that of New York. After many struggles with the bitterest poverty he got to Middlebury College, studied law, became a prominent official of his native state, and somewhat acciden
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index. (search)
R Rabelais, 116 Radcliffe, Mrs., 177, 235 Rainbow, the, 237 Rain dream, a, 271 Raleigh, Sir, Walter, 18, 154 Ralph Waldo Emerson, 361 n. Rambler, 85 Ramsay, David, 148 Randolph, 309 Rasselas, 284 Raynal, Abbe, 200 Records of the Boston stage, 226 n. Records of the Federal Convention, 147 n. Records of the New York stage, 221 n. Recruiting officer, I 17 Red Book, the, 240, 31 Red Jacket, 283 Red Rover, the, 300 Redburn, 321 Redskins, the, 305 Redwood, 310 Reflections on the resistance made to King Charles I, 80 Rehearsal, 114 Religion of nature, 94 Religious Courtship, 115 Remarkable Providences, 54 n. Rent, 212 Representative men, 353 Resources of the United States, the, 293 n. Return from a Cruise, the, 226 Revere, Paul, 123 Reynolds, J. N., 322 n. Rhapsodist, the, 288 Rhapsody on the times, 175 Rich, Richard, 150 Richard Edney, 314 Richard Hurdis, 3 17 Richardson, 285 Richelieu, 49 Rights