Married or Single?
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Married or Single?

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Married or Single?

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Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives.

Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary forms—including the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fiction—and provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick's lifelong concern with women's duties to the nation as citizens is demonstrated through her depiction of exemplary women of various backgrounds and circumstances who illustrate the idea that becoming a worthy human being is more important than becoming a wife, especially in a democratic society.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780803274976
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literature General
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Editor’s Introduction
  8. A Note on the Text
  9. Married or Single?
  10. Dedication
  11. Preface
  12. Volume One
  13. Chapter 1
  14. Chapter 2
  15. Chapter 3
  16. Chapter 4
  17. Chapter 5
  18. Chapter 6
  19. Chapter 7
  20. Chapter 8
  21. Chapter 9
  22. Chapter 10
  23. Chapter 11
  24. Chapter 12
  25. Chapter 13
  26. Chapter 14
  27. Chapter 15
  28. Chapter 16
  29. Chapter 17
  30. Chapter 18
  31. Chapter 19
  32. Chapter 20
  33. Volume Two
  34. Chapter 1
  35. Chapter 2
  36. Chapter 3
  37. Chapter 4
  38. Chapter 5
  39. Chapter 6
  40. Chapter 7
  41. Chapter 8
  42. Chapter 9
  43. Chapter 10
  44. Chapter 11
  45. Chapter 12
  46. Chapter 13
  47. Chapter 14
  48. Chapter 15
  49. Chapter 16
  50. Chapter 17
  51. Chapter 18
  52. Chapter 19
  53. Chapter 20
  54. Chapter 21
  55. Chapter 22
  56. Chapter 23
  57. Chapter 24
  58. Notes
  59. About Catharine Marie Sedgwick
  60. About Deborah Gussman
  61. Series List