Hope Leslie, or, Early Times in Massachusetts was first published in two volumes in 1827.[1] The book was Sedgwick's third novel.[2] The book was successful and critics compared it to James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, another early American novel.[1] The North American Review praised Hope Leslie as an example of "the female influence in literature", specifically its ability to influence positively, but warned against women authors who "have forgotten their sex".[3]
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