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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899 10 0 Browse Search
Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall) 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 5: travel 1843-1844; aet. 24-25 (search)
n I dress for dinner, and scratch myself with my hair mittens; the third is when I undress at night, and scratch myself with my hair mittens. . .. Beside this feast of hospitality, there was the theatre, with Macready and Helen Faucit in the Lady of Lyons, and the opera, with Grisi and Mario, Alboni and Persiani. Julia, who had been forbidden the theatre since her seventh year, enjoyed to the full both music and drama, but the crowning ecstasy of all she found in the ballet, of which Fanny Elssler and Cerito were the stars. The former was beginning to wane; the dancing which to Emerson and Margaret Fuller seemed poetry and religion had lost, perhaps, something of its magic; the latter was still in her early bloom and grace. Years later, our mother suggested to Theodore Parker that the best stage dancing gives the classic, in a fluent form, with the illumination of life and personality. She recalled nothing sensual or even sensuous in the dances she saw that season, only the
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
366; II, 4, 7, 9, 28, 31, 36, 44, 57, 61, 62, 65, 67, 68-71, 73, 83, 90, 94, 98, 101, 113-15, 119, 122, 125, 131, 132, 138, 146, 158, 164, 169, 182, 207, 234, 236, 238, 240, 241, 244, 247, 249, 251, 255, 256, 281, 284, 285, 288, 290, 292, 294, 295, 298, 302-04, 312-14, 318, 320, 322, 324, 328, 340, 341, 363, 369, 370, 381, 397, 399, 404, 405, 408, 410, 414. Letters to, II, 132, 138, 139, 155, 156, 193, 195-200, 202, 217, 218, 220, 224, 226, 227, 231. Elmira Reformatory, II, 107. Elssler, Fanny, I, 87. Elsteth, I, 349; II, 57. Embley, I, 97. Emerson, Miss, II, 224. Emerson, Edward, II, 378. Emerson, R. W., I, 70, 72, 87, 139, 140, 177, 209, 290; II, 10, 50, 56, 61, 76, 77, 120, 137, 143, 250, 263, 304, 363. Letter of, I, 139. Emerson, Mrs. R. W., II, 61, 76, 87. England, I, 85, 93, 312; II, 9, 10, 21, 164, 296. England, Church of, II, 174. Ephesus, II, 5. Europe, I, 138; II, 4, 12, 188, see also separate countries. Evangelides, Christy, I, 42, 2