A novalist and prolific writer, Catherine Sedgwick wrote about Mumbet. Catherine was the daughter of Theodore Sedgwick and lived in the same household Mumbet served after leaving the Ashley House. Catharine is buried next to Mumbet in the "Sedgwick Pie." Her brother Charles, who wrote Mumbet's epitaph lies on Miss Sedgwick's other side. Miss Sedgwick was born in Stockbridge, MA and later attended Payne's Finishing School in Boston. According to Professor Lucinda Damon-Bach, Ph.D. English Department, Salem State College, and Founder of the Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society, upon her return to the Berkshires Catharine helped her sister-law run a school in Lenox, Massachusetts on Kemble Street on the site of what is now Springlawn at the National Music Foundation but spent most of her time writing. Professor Damon-Bach also says that Catharine "was one of the Sedgwick children who gave Mumbet her nickname," and that Mumbet was the children's substitute mother.

You may read what Catharine wrote about Mumbet by clicking here.

Biographical information on Catharine can be found at > http://english.ohio-state.edu/people/Bracken.1/Sedgwick/cmsbio.htm and also >http://www.unc.edu/sycamore/97.4/nature.html

Links to Catharine Maria Sedgwick > http://www.salemstate.edu/imc/sedgwick/links.html