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Sedgwick, Catharine Maria

author, was born Dec. 28, 1789, in Stockbridge, Mass. She was a once famous novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary women. She was the author of Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveler; Clarence; Le Bossu; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; and Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; and Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stockbridge, Mass., her native town. She died July 31, 1867, near Roxbury, Mass.

SEDGWICK, MRS. ELIZABETH BUCK- MINSTER [DWIGHT], author, was born in 1791 in Massachusetts. She was a teacher for many years; and the author of Beatitudes and Pleasant Sundays; Lessons Without Books; A Talk with My Pupils; and Stories of the Spanish Conquest. She died in 1864.