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      • Having converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism, she published a pamphlet promoting religious tolerance, and she began making a living by publishing short stories, some of them specifically for young people.
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  2. Get all the key plot points of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

  3. Having converted from Calvinism to Unitarianism, she published a pamphlet promoting religious tolerance, and she began making a living by publishing short stories, some of them specifically for young people. Among her novels, Hope Leslie gained an international readership and has had the most enduring popularity. Many of her novels included ...

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    Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in the Massachusetts is a novel written by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. The book is considered significant because of its strong feminism overtones and ideas of equity toward Native Americans. The book is a historical romance, set mostly in 1643. A number of historical figures appear, including Puritan leader John ...

    • Catharine Sedgwick
    • English
    • 1827
    • Early Times in Massachusetts
  5. Hope Leslie (1827) sympathetically depicts the religious and social customs of Native Americans, a depiction based on her own research on the Mohawks. She had a public life through her activities in various reform movements tied to Unitarianism.

  6. When Fletcher and Alice run away to spend their lives together, they are caught and returned, and Alice is forced to marry Charles Leslie. Fletcher is devastated, and he decides to rebuild his life by moving from England to the English colony at Massachusetts Bay. He marries an orphan there, but he still loves Alice who now has two kids with ...

    • Catharine Maria Sedgwick
  7. Nevertheless, Hope Leslie is an important work of adventure and literary activism, and it endures as a record of how white Protestant society viewed Native Americans in the seventeenth century. The SuperSummary difference

  8. Esther Downing, a niece of Mrs. Winthrop’s, becomes good friends with Hope. She seems to be everything that Hope is not: faithful, prudent, and studious. She is also kind. She tells a story of how Everell came to her death bed and her ensuing recovery. Esther is infatuated with Everell, which saddens Hope greatly.

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