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| Catharine Maria Sedgwick |
Catharine Maria Sedgwick was an American novelist and feminist.
Throughout her life Catherine remained single and often struggled with self-confidence. Her four brothers encouraged her to write and worked to sustain her and assist her with contracts and reviews.
At an early age, Catherine left her Calvinist faith to become a Unitarian and showed consistent tolerance for members of other faiths.
The central figures in Sedgwick’s novels are women, often noted for their independence. Though sympathetic to women’s rights and abolition, Sedgwick never took an active part in those reforms.
Toward the end of her life, however, she became the first director of the Women’s Prison Association. Her novels show a horror of prisons and a hatred of slavery.
Sedgwick’s fiction repeatedly emphasized the political and personal need for liberty and independence (Source: Cengage Learning).
Catharine Maria Sedgwick was listed among the eminent women in the records of the St. George Temple. To learn more about the painting by Michael Bedard in this video please click here.
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