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Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War. 2 0 Browse Search
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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Susanna Rowson. (search)
ation, and into the forecastle of the whale ship on the lonely ocean. It has been read by the gray-bearded professor after his divine Plato; by the traveller waiting for the next conveyance at the village inn; by the school girl stealthfully in her seat at school. A great, warm, loving heart guided the fingers which portrayed the picture, and that is power; and ply the rules of rhetoric as we may, the people feel the power, and they acknowledge it. Entering into an engagement with J. B. Williamson, manager of the Federal Street Theatre, the Rowson family came to Boston in 1796. One of the parts taken by Mrs. Rowson was Lady Sneerwell in Sheridan's School for Scandal. She wrote a comedy called Americans in England, which was performed for her benefit, and for her last appearance on the stage. On leaving the stage, in the spring of 1797, under the patronage of Mrs. Samuel Smith, Mr. Nason writes, Mrs. Rowson began a school in Federal street, and with but a single pupil continued