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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 11: anti-slavery attitude: literary work: trip to Cuba (search)
n Mr. Booth in a variety of characters, I could only think of representing him as Hippolytus, a beautiful youth, of heroic type, enamored of a high ideal. This was the part which I desired to create for him. I undertook the composition without much delay, and devoted to it the months of one summer's sojourn at Lawton's Valley. This lovely little estate had come to us almost fortuitously. George William Curtis, writing of the Newport of forty years ago, gives a character sketch of one Alfred Smith, a well-known real estate agent, who managed to entrap strangers in his gig, and drove about with them, often succeeding in making them purchasers of some bit of property in the sale of which he had a personal interest. In the summer of 1852 my husband became one of his victims. I say this because Dr. Howe made the purchase without much deliberation. In fact, he could hardly have told any one why he made it. The farm was a very poor one, and the farmhouse very small. Some necessary re
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
aids the woman suffrage movement, 382. Seward, William H., secretary of state, stigmatized by Count Gurowski, 222. Shaw, Mrs. Quincy A., 184. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, his books prohibited in the Ward family, 58. Sherret, Miss, her interest in schools for girls of the middle class, 333. Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha Butt), her stories, 48. Siddons, Mrs. William (Sarah Kemble), fund for her monument, 104; her daughter, 131. Sillhman Prof. Benjamin, of Yale College, 22. Smith, Alfred, real estate agent of Newport, 238. Smith, Mrs., Seba, 166. Smith, Rev., Sydney, calls on the Howes: his reputation as a wit, 91; appearance, 92; anecdotes of, 92-95; pleasantry about Lord Morpeth, 107. Smith, Mrs., Sydney, Mrs. Howe calls on, 94. Somerville, Mrs. (Mary Fairfax), intimate with Mrs. Jameson, 42. Sonnambula, La, given in New York, 15. Sontag, Mme., at Mrs. Benzon's, 435. Sothern, Edward Askew, in The World's Own, 230. Southworth, Mrs. F. H. (Emma D. E.