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Project Gutenberg's Daughters of the Puritans, by Seth Curtis Beach This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Daughters of the Puritans A Group of Brief Biographies Author: Seth Curtis Beach Release Date: May 24, 2008 [EBook #25582] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAUGHTERS OF THE PURITANS *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Chris Logan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net DAUGHTERS OF THE PURITANS A Group of Brief Biographies BY SETH CURTIS BEACH _Essay Index Reprint Series_ BOOKS FOR LIBRARIES PRESS, INC. FREEPORT, NEW YORK First published 1905 Reprinted 1967 [Illustration: THE HOME OF LYDIA MARIA CHILD AT WAYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS] CONTENTS PAGE CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK, 1789-1867 1 MARY LOVELL WARE, 1798-1849 43 LYDIA MARIA CHILD, 1802-1880 79 DOROTHEA LYNDE DIX, 1802-1887 123 SARAH MARGARET FULLER OSSOLI, 1810-1850 165 HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, 1811-1896 209 LOUISA MAY ALCOTT, 1832-1888 251 I CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK [Illustration: CATHARINE MARIA SEDGWICK] During the first half of the nineteenth century, Miss Sedgwick would doubtless have been considered the queen of American letters, but, in the opinion of her friends, the beauty of her character surpassed the merit of her books. In 1871, Miss Mary E. Dewey, her life-long neighbor, edited a volume of Miss Sedgwick's letters, mostly to members of her family, in compliance with the desire of those who knew and loved her, "that some printed memorial should exist of a life so beautiful and delightful in itself, and so beneficent in its influence upon others." Truly a "life beautiful in itself and beneficent in its influence," the reader will say, as he lays down this tender volume. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was born at Stockbridge, Mass., in 1789, the fir
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