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100 1 _aSedgwick, Catharine Maria,
_d1789-1867
245 1 0 _aHope Leslie: or, early times in the Massachusetts, volume 1 (of 2)
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Leslie
500 _aRelease date is 2025-05-06
508 _aan anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer
520 _a"Hope Leslie: or, early times in the Massachusetts, volume 1 (of 2)" by Sedgwick is a novel written in the early 19th century. The likely topic of the book is the early colonial period in Massachusetts, focusing on themes of cultural conflict, loyalty, and personal integrity amidst the complex relations between Puritan settlers and Native Americans. The narrative introduces characters such as William Fletcher, his family, and the Native American girl Magawisca, weaving their personal struggles into the broader historical setting of New England’s founding days. The opening of the novel establishes the Fletcher family's background, marked by William Fletcher’s principled refusal to compromise his beliefs for love or fortune, resulting in his emigration to New England. It then shifts to his life in Massachusetts, depicting the hardships of colonial settlement, the integration of new family members, and the arrival of Indian servants, particularly the noble and thoughtful Magawisca. Through letters and interactions, domestic life, Puritan values, and tensions with Native Americans are vividly portrayed. As danger looms from possible attacks, the relationships between settlers and indigenous people are dramatized, revealing both the deep prejudices and the budding sympathies within the household, while a sense of impending crisis builds through Magawisca’s divided loyalties and the ever-present threat on the frontier. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Harper & Brothers, 1842
653 _aHistorical fiction
653 _aMassachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Fiction
653 _aWomen -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
653 _aIndians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/hopeleslieorear04sedggoog
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76028
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