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ENL 520 Seminar in Literature Fall 2021: Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Professor Damon-Bach

America's Historical Newspapers (Readex)

  • America's Historical Newspapers has three collections:
    • Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
    • Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1758-1922
    • African American Newspapers, Series I
  • Search for titles of Sedgwick's books to see advertisements and commentaries.

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876

Early American Newspapers, Series II, 1758-1922

African American Newspapers. Series I

Search Examples

  • Search #1:
    • Key word search for "New England Tale" across all three databases in America's Historical Newspapers.
    • This search brought up "false hits" - books that were not written by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
    • One result discussed "A New-England Tale" but said that the author was unknown!
    • See the revised search below.
  • Search #2:
    • In the revised search, the title of "A New-England Tale" was carefully entered, including all words of the title and the punctuation. 
    • A second term, "Sedgwick" was entered to specify the work by Catharine Maria Sedgwick.
    • The results were more precise, but did not include the item in search #1 that discussed the book, but did not mention Sedgwick's name.