The Letters of American Novelist Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867): An Online Edition

FAIN: RQ-292764-23

California State University, Dominguez Hills Foundation (Carson, CA 90747-0001)
Patricia Larson Kalayjian (Project Director: November 2022 to present)
Deborah Gussman (Co Project Director: May 2024 to present)
Lucinda L. Damon-Bach (Co Project Director: May 2024 to present)

Preparation for publication of an open access, digital edition of the complete letters of early American writer Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867). (24 months)

The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Online Letters Project (CMSOL) seeks to publish an open-access digital edition of the complete, unexpurgated letters written by Sedgwick (1789-1867) to her more than 250 correspondents over seven decades. This phase of the project begins in 1827 and continues through 1836. Sedgwick's literary status as the premier American woman writer of the Early National Period as well as her contributions to the most important cultural and political conversations of the day argue for the publication of this heretofore unpublished personal correspondence.