“All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.”
Quotes by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
“Home can never be transferred; never repeated in the experience of an individual. The place consecrated by parental love, by the innocence and sports of childhood, by the first acquaintance with nature; by the linking of the heart to the visible creation, is the only home. There there is a living and breathing spirit infused into nature: every familiar object has a history—the trees have tongues, and the very air is vocal. There the vesture of decay doth not close in and control the noble functions of the soul. It sees and hears and enjoys without the ministry of gross material substance.”
“Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman.”
Catharine Maria SedgwickCatharine Maria Sedgwick was a prominent American novelist known for her contributions to domestic fiction during the early 19th century. Active from the 1820s to the 1850s, she gained recognition for...