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Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick
1788–1867
A 19th-century American writer remembered for children’s stories, she also left behind a striking watercolor portrait tied to her family’s history. Her life connected literature, art, and one of the country’s most prominent political families.
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The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace
by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick
About the author
Born in 1788, Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick was an American author who wrote in the 19th century, especially for younger readers. She was part of the well-known Sedgwick family and lived through a period when women’s writing was becoming more visible in American literary life.
She is noted not only for her books but also for a watercolor-on-ivory portrait associated with Elizabeth Freeman, also known as Mum Bett, an important figure in Massachusetts history. That surviving artwork has helped keep Sedgwick’s name in view even beyond her writing.
Although she is less widely read today than some of her contemporaries, she remains an interesting figure for readers curious about early American women writers and the cultural world of New England in the 1800s. She died in 1867.