Author:Frances Sargent Osgood

Frances Sargent Osgood
(1811–1850)

Frances Sargent Osgood

Works

Short Stories

• "Romance of Real Life in New England" (May 1836)
• "The Crumpled Rose Leaf" (Sep. 1836)
• "A Day in New England" (Nov. 1836)
• "Florence Howard" (Apr. 1839)
• "The Doom" (Aug. 1840)
• "Pictures from a Painter’s Life" (Jan. 1841)
• "The Waltz and the Wager" (Apr. 1841)
• "May Evelyn" (Mar. 1842)
• "Waste Paper; or “Trifles Light as Air" (Sep. 1842)
• "Truth" (Dec. 1842)
• "The Coquette; or the Game of Life" (Jan. 1843)
• "Dora’s Reward; or the 'Ruse de Guerre'" (Jun. 1843)
• "Pride and Penitence" (Sep. 1843)
• "Grace Melvyn" (Aug. 1843)
• "Lizzie Lincoln" (Oct. 1843)
• "Daguerreotype Pictures Taken on New Year’s Day" (Nov. 1843)
• "The Wife" (Dec. 1843)
• "The Lady’s Shadow" (Jan. 1844)
• "Kate Melburne" (Jan. 1844)
• "Newport Tableaux" (Jan. 1844)
• "A Match for the Matchmaker" (Feb. 1844)
• "The Poet’s Metamorphosis" (Mar. 1844)
• "Virginia, the Little Match-Girl of Kentucky" (Mar. 1844)
• "Feeling Versus Beauty" (Jun. 1844)
• "Valentine’s Day; or a Lover’s Reminiscences" (Jul. 1844)
• "The Flower and Gem" (Aug. 1844)
• "The Soul Awakened; or Which Shall Win Him" (Oct. 1844)
• "The Magic Lute" (Nov. 1844)
• "The Little Lost Shoe; or Fielding in Search of a Foot" (Dec. 1844)
• "The Soul Mirror" (Jan. 1845)
• "Florence Errington" (Feb. 1845)
• "Mabel" (Feb. 1845)
• "Carry Carlisle" (Mar. 1845)
• "Once More" (Jul. 1845)
• "Ida Grey" (Aug. 1845)
• "Leonora L’Estrange" (Oct. 1845)
• "Kate Carol; or Glimpses of a Soul" (Mar. 1846)
• "Glimpses of a Soul.-----No. II" (Jun. 1846)
• "Glimpses of a Soul.-----No. III" (Sep. 1846)
• "Athenais" (Sep. 1846)
• "Le Porte-Bouquet, or Genius and Ingenuity" (Dec. 1846)
• "Glimpses of a Soul" (Feb. 1847)
• "Life in New York. A Sketch of a Literary Soiree" (Mar. 1847)
• "Kate Carol to Mary S." (May 1847)
• "Kate Carol to Her *" (Aug. 1847)
• "Violet Vere’s Vacation" (May 1848)

Poetry

• Poetry, published 1826 in a bimonthly periodical of children's poetry called Juvenile Miscellany by editor Lydia Maria Child.
• A Wreath of Flowers from New England (1838)
  • "To My Book"
  • Elfrida, a dramatic poem in five acts
• The Casket of Fate
• "So Let It Be" (1845)
• "Echo-Song" (1845)
• "Forgive and Forget"
• "Little Red Riding-Hood" (1850)
• "Old Friends" (1850)
• "A Shipwreck" (1845)
• "A Song"
• "A Song"
• "To S. S. Osgood" (1850)
• "Why Will A Rose-Bud Blow?"
• "The Violet's Love"
• "The Crimson Plume"
• "The Broken Heart's Appeal"
• "Labor"

Books

• The Poetry of Flowers and the Flowers of Poetry (1841)
• The Snowdrop: A New Year Gift for Children (1842)
• Rose, Sketches in Verse (1842)
• Puss in Boots (1842)
• The Marquis of Carabas (1844)
• Cries in New York (1846)
• Poems (1850)

Works addressed to Osgood

By Poe

• "To ——" (1833)
• "Impromptu. To Kate Carol" (1845)
• "To F——s S. O——d" (renamed in 1845)
• "To F——" (1845)
• "Stanzas" (1845)
• "A Valentine" (1846)

Works about Osgood

• "Frances S. Osgood", by Poe in September 1846 in a series The Literati of New York
• "Frances S. Osgood," in The Female Prose Writers of America, (ed.) by John S. Hart, Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co. (1852)