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- Hope Leslie (1827) was Sedgwick's third novel, and usually considered her best. It's historical fiction, set mostly in her native Massachusetts in the 1630s and early 1640s, though some of the early chapters are set in England as far back as into the 1620s, to explain the connection between the Fletcher and Leslie families.
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Hope Leslie is set in the 17th-century Massachusetts Bay Colony, which originally included parts of present-day Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut. The colony, founded in 1628, was made up of more than 20,000 colonists, mostly English Puritans (Calvinist Protestants who resisted the forms of worship imposed by the established ...
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Hope persuades her tutor, Master Cradock, to be her...
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Hope Leslie is a fictional interpretation of real historical...
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Cradock is Hope Leslie ’s tutor. He travels to America with...
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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.
- Catharine Sedgwick
- 1827
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.
Hope Leslie is a historical novel about Puritan New England that manages to address important social and cultural issues facing early-nineteenth-century America. Sedgwick turned to Puritan history during a period of great cultural interest in colonial history.
Aug 17, 2018 · Hope Leslie opens in England with the doomed relationship of William Fletcher and his cousin Alice. Although the two love each other, Alice’s father refuses the match because of religious differences (William becomes a Puritan).
Apr 22, 2021 · Hope Leslie (1827) was Sedgwick's third novel, and usually considered her best. It's historical fiction, set mostly in her native Massachusetts in the 1630s and early 1640s, though some of the early chapters are set in England as far back as into the 1620s, to explain the connection between the Fletcher and Leslie families.
