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Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe 76 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 18 0 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), University and College education in the United States, the trend of (search)
acteristic cut off. Time does not permit me to show the direct results of this kind of higher education. It is enough to say that it was characteristic of its times. The exclusive spirit still prevailed. In many sections of the country men were monarchists or aristocrats without knowing the fact. The principles of democracy had not yet exerted their full influence. The times were not yet ripe for the full fruitage in the educational field of democratic methods and democratic ideals. George Eliot's description in Middlemarch of certain English institutions would have been strictly applicable to these, for they were institutions which sought to lift up the higher learning by making it exclusive. New factors in the present situation. If, within fifty years, there have been changes in our industrial world; if, with the coming of the railroad and the telegraph-line methods of transportation have been revolutionized; if everywhere growth and development, which are only other wor
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Usher, Hezekiah 1615-1676 (search)
Usher, Hezekiah 1615-1676 Patriot; born in England about 1615; established himself in Boston in 1646; was agent for the Society for Propagating the Gospel; purchased the press and type for printing Eliot's Indian Bible in 1657; and was one of the founders of the Old South Church in 1669. He died in Boston, Mass., March 14, 1676. Patriot; born in Cambridge, Mass., June 6, 1639; son of the preceding; engaged in business in Boston. During the witchcraft excitement he was arrested but allowed to escape. He died in Boston, Mass., July 11, 1679.
Introductory statement. I desire to express my thanks here to Harper & Brothers, of New York, for permission to use letters already published in the Autobiography and correspondence of Lyman Beecher. I have availed myself freely of this permission in chapters i. and III. In chapter XX. I have given letters already published in the Life of George Eliot, by Mr. Cross; but in every instance I have copied from the original Mss. and not from the published work. In conclusion, I desire to express my indebtedness to Mr. Kirk Munroe, who has been my co-laborer in the work of compilation. Charles E. Stowe. Hartford, September 30, 1889.
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 14: the minister's wooing, 1857-1859. (search)
umid vagueness of the modern school of novel-writers as The Vicar of Wakefield itself, and we are greatly mistaken if it do not prove to be the most characteristic of Mrs. Stowe's works, and therefore that on which her fame will chiefly rest with posterity. The minister's Wooing was not completed as a serial till December, 1859. Long before its completion Mrs. Stowe received letters from many interested readers, who were as much concerned for the future of her spiritual children, as George Eliot would call them, as if they had been flesh and blood. The following letter from Mr. Lowell is given as the most valuable received by Mrs. Stowe at this time:-- Cambridge, February 4, 1859. My dear Mrs. Stowe,--I certainly did mean to write you about your story, but only to cry bravissima! with the rest of the world. I intended no kind of criticism; deeming it wholly out of place, and in the nature of a wet-blanket, so long as a story is unfinished. When I got the first number in
Chapter 18: Oldtown folks, 1869. Professor Stowe the original of Harry in Oldtown folks. Professor Stowe's letter to George Eliot. her remarks on the same. Professor Stowe's narrative of his youthful adventures in the world of spirits. Professor Stowe's influence on Mrs. Stowe's literary life. George Eliot on OlGeorge Eliot on Oldtown folks. This biography would be signally incomplete without some mention of the birth, childhood, early associations, and very peculiar and abnormal psychological experiences of Professor Stowe. Aside from the fact of Dr. Stowe's being Mrs. Stowe's husband, and for this reason entitled to notice in any sketch of her life,owing to its distinctively New England character. Shortly after the publication of the book she received the following words of encouragement from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot), July 11, 1869:-- I have received and read Oldtown folks. I think that few of your readers can have felt more interest than I have felt in that picture
Charles E. Stowe, Harriet Beecher Stowe compiled from her letters and journals by her son Charles Edward Stowe, Chapter 19: the Byron controversy, 1869-1870. (search)
most interested. I know your firm self-reliance, and your courage to proclaim the truth when any good end is to be served by it. It is to be expected that public opinion will be more or less divided as to the expediency of this revelation . Hoping that you have recovered from your indisposition, I am Faithfully yours, O. W. Holmes. While undergoing the most unsparing and pitiless criticism and brutal insult, Mrs. Stowe received the following sympathetic words from Mrs. Lewes (George Eliot):-- The Priory, 21 North Bank, December 10, 1869. My dear friend,--. . . In the midst of your trouble I was often thinking of you, for I feared that you were undergoing a considerable trial from the harsh and unfair judgments, partly the fruit of hostility glad to find an opportunity for venting itself, and partly of that unthinking cruelty which belongs to hasty anonymous journalism. For my own part, I should have preferred that the Byron question should never have been brought befo
Chapter 20: George Eliot. Correspondence with George Eliot. George Eliot's first impresGeorge Eliot. George Eliot's first impressions of Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's letter to Mrs. Follen. George Eliot's letter to Mrs. Stowe. MrsGeorge Eliot's first impressions of Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's letter to Mrs. Follen. George Eliot's letter to Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's reply. life in Florida. Robert Dale Owen and modern spiritualism. George Eliot's letterGeorge Eliot's letter to Mrs. Stowe. Mrs. Stowe's reply. life in Florida. Robert Dale Owen and modern spiritualism. George Eliot's letter on the phenomena of spiritualism. Mrs. Stowe's description of scenery in Florida. Mrs. Stowe concGeorge Eliot's letter on the phenomena of spiritualism. Mrs. Stowe's description of scenery in Florida. Mrs. Stowe concerning Middlemarch. George Eliot to Mrs. Stowe during Rev. H. W. Beecher's trial. Mrs. Stowe conGeorge Eliot to Mrs. Stowe during Rev. H. W. Beecher's trial. Mrs. Stowe concerning her life experience with her brother, H. W. Beecher, and his trial. Mrs. Lewes' last letter one of the most eminent women of this age, George Eliot. There seems to have been some deep affiite of diversity of intellectual tastes. George Eliot's attention was first personally attracted rs. Follen. Speaking of this incident she (George Eliot) writes: Mrs. Follen showed me a deliwes. Mrs. Stowe writes from Mandarin to George Eliot:-- Mandarin, February 8, 1872. Dear fri[1 more...]
visits, 364; views on Reconstruction, 397; George Eliot on Beecher trial, 472; his character as tolwill, refuted by Catherine Beecher, 26. Eliot, George, 419; a good Christian, 420; on psychical diums, 419. Humor of Mrs. Stowe's books, George Eliot on, 462. Husband and wife, sympathy betw after death of, 483. Lewes, Mrs. G. H. See Eliot, George, 325. Library of Famous Fiction, d, 464; Goethe on, 465; H. B. S.'s letter to George Eliot on, 466; her mature views on, 485; a comforer on reasons for leaving the West, 128; to George Eliot, 420; to son Charles, 345. Stowe, Charle in Byron matter, 458; her friendship, with George Eliot dates from letter shown by Mrs. Follen, 459, 460; describes Florida life and peace to George Eliot, 463; her interest in Mr. Owen and spiritual9; impressions of Middlemarch, 471; invites George Eliot to come to America, 472; words of sympathy 476; new edition with introduction sent to George Eliot, 4S3; date of, 490; Whittier's mention of, [11 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 19: personal traits. (search)
a topical illustration of his favorite theory. Miss Fuller slowly uncoiled the.heavy folds of her light brown hair and submitted her haughty head to his sentient fingers. The masterly analysis which he made of her character, its complexities and contradictions, its heights and its depths, its nobilities and its frailties, was strangely lucid and impressive, and helped one who knew her well to a more tender and sympathetic appreciation of her character and career, a character which only George Eliot could have fully appreciated and portrayed. Providence journal, July 24, 1876. Many men, including some of the most gifted in our American community, have since tried their hands on Margaret Fuller's head; and they have given such varying results as their point of observation might justify. With ready recognition of my own inferiority to them as respects personal knowledge, I find myself, after long and patient study of her writings, forming conclusions sometimes different from their
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 5: Bryant and the minor poets (search)
. He typified, too, a not altogether ignoble phase of earlier American culture in his zealous acquisitiveness, both in science (he died as state geologist of Wisconsin), and in languages (he wrote verse in Scandinavian and German, and translated from innumerable tongues). But he belongs chiefly to the student of human nature; lonely, shy, unmarried, disappointed, poor, and dirty, he was in appearance and mode of life a character for Dickens, in heart and soul a character for Thackeray or George Eliot. Lowell pilloried him in an essay; Bryant was perhaps juster in his kindlier obituary criticism in The evening Post. He was once a famous man. Samuel Woodworth (1785-1842) See Book II, Chaps. II and VI. and George P. Morris (1802-1864), Knickerbocker editors of literary journals See Book II, Chap. XX. and charitably remembered respectively for The old Oaken Bucket and Woodman, Spare that Tree, were popular song writers in the sentimental fashion (perhaps more developed in Ame
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