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Historic leaves
Vol.
II. July, 1903. no. 2.
Literary men and women of Somerville.
(Continued.)
associated with
Mrs. Bacon in the editorship of the
Ladies' Repository was
Nancy Thorning Munroe, who had indeed begun to contribute to its pages at the age of sixteen.
She served as one of the two assistant editors during the term of her sister-in-law's leadership.
Mrs. Munroe also contributed to the
Rose of
Sharon.
One of her contributions (1856) has peculiar local interest, since it relates to the people who lived on
Prospect Hill near her residence.
The yellow house with high steps on Walnut street, fronting Aldersey—a house built by her husband—is where
Mrs. Munroe lived for many years.
In ‘Our Model Neighborhood,’ after discussing what makes good and bad neighbors, the author says of her own environment: ‘And now, when I would fain describe it, my heart begins to falter.
It is not large, though not from any spirit of exclusiveness, be it understood.
It is peculiar in many things, and one is this: the children in this model neighborhood never have any trouble.
And as the children play together without any trouble, so the parents and older members of the neighborhood live peaceably and quietly.
They all have kindly feelings toward each other.
If one has good fortune, others rejoice with him and congratulate him. They are like members of one large family; they are so nearly connected that what is a joy to one must be a joy to another, and what is grief to one must be grief to all.’
Some interesting prose and verse appears from
Mrs. Munroe's pen in the
