Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Elisabetta Sirani” in chapter 18, page 27 of Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1:
...ave given her lectures from behind a curtain, in order that the students' attention should not be distracted from her words of wisdom by her beauty.
In the picture gallery she found out the work of Elisabetta Sirani , one of the good painters of the Bolognese school.
And now, after twenty-seven years, her road led once more to Rome.
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