Catharine maria sedgwick autobiography range

(Born: December 28, 1789 - Died: July 31, 1867)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist, essayist, and social reformer whose early writings are widely considered to have been instrumental in the formation of America’s national literature.

Sedgwick was the sixth of seven children born to Theodore Sedgwick and Pamela Dwight (m.

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1774).

Born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, just two years after the convening of the Constitutional Convention, Catharine Maria Sedgwick was a model child of the new republic. The product of a union between a wealthy, blue-blooded mother and a self-made, lower-class lawyer, Sedgwick’s birth represented the equalizing power of American democracy, and her childhood was almost wholly defined by her father’s investment in the establishment of the American nation.

Although she later criticized her haphazard education, which was completed through a miscellany of