Hope Leslie : or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
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From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Erica Bauermeister
During the 1800s, Catharine Sedgwick was considered one of the founding authors of American literature; unfortunately she was relegated to obscurity in our century and only recently rediscovered. But there's more to Catharine Sedgwick than historical interest - she was a writer who considered political and ethical questions through marketable, often fast-paced literature, in the process producing some of the most spirited women in fiction. Hope Leslie whirls off the pages like a combination of Pippi Longstocking, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Gloria Steinem. A free-thinker in the midst of a repressive eighteenth-century Puritan tradition, Hope is determined to follow her own conscience, and she repeatedly rebels in ingenious, dangerous, and often humorous ways. She frees imprisoned Indians, challenges the restrictions placed upon women by Puritan leaders, refuses a suitor she does not want - and that is just the beginning. Surrounding Hope are three very different women: articulate, angry Magawisca, one of the few Pequod survivors of a massacre by white men; Esther, Hope's close friend, a meek and subservient Puritan woman; and Rosa, who dresses as a boy to follow her lover to America and then exacts a powerful revenge when rejected. Through them all comes a story packed with romantic misunderstandings, politics, and philosophy, presenting a potentially dark world whose hope is the democracy symbolized in its adventurous, quick-thinking heroine. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14.
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Nineteenth-Century Literature
"makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeenth-century Puritans and their relations with the indigenous Indian population."
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Hope Leslie : or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics)
Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics),Catharine Maria Sedgwick,Carolyn Karcher,Carolyn L. Karcher,Penguin Classics,0140436766,19th Century American Novel And Short Story,Classics,Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775,Fiction,Historical - General,History,Indians of North America,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Massachusetts,Women,19th century fiction,American English,American history: c 1500 to c 1800,English,Fiction / Historical,Literary studies: 19th century,Other prose: 19th century,Social history,USA
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