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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 4 0 Browse Search
James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 2 0 Browse Search
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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen, Fanny Fern-Mrs. Parton. (search)
dens, in short frocks, who, in that gay unconsciousness of young girlhood, so charming, yet so exasperating, called innocently for new frocks, cloaks, and hats, kid gloves, slippers, ribbons, and French candies. So an essay was penned,--a little essay it was, I believe, measured by paragraphs and lines, but it was in reality big with the fate of Fanny and her girls. It was a venture quite as important to its author as was the first Boz sketch to Charles Dickens, or as was Jane Eyre to Charlotte Bronte. After a patient trial and many rebuffs, she found, in a great city, an editor enterprising, or charitable, enough, to publish this essay, and to pay for it,--for he was a just man, who held that verily the laborer is worthy of his hire, --to pay for it-fifty cents! It is to be hoped this Maecenas found himself none the poorer for his liberality at the end of the year. The essay proved a hit, a palpable hit, and was widely copied and commented on. It was followed by others, written
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Americanism in literature. (search)
, what passionate women; how they love and hate, struggle and endure; how they play with the world ; what a trail of fire they leave behind them as they pass by! Turn now to recent fiction. Dickens's people are amusing and lovable, no doubt; Thackeray's are wicked and witty; but how under-sized they look, and how they loiter on the mere surfaces of life, compared, I will not say with Shakespeare's, but even with Chapman's and Webster's men. Set aside Hawthorne in America, with perhaps Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot in England, and there would scarcely be a fact in prose literature to show that we modern Anglo-Saxons regard a profound human emotion as a thing worth the painting. Who now dares delineate a lover, except with good-natured pitying sarcasm, as in David Copperfield or Pendennis ? In the Elizabethan period, with all its unspeakable coarseness, hot blood still ran in the veins of literature; lovers burned and suffered and were men. And what was true of love was true of al
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Short studies of American authors, Henry James, Jr. (search)
ions of character. It is a great step downward from these to the somewhat vulgar horrors contained in A romance of certain Old Clothes. The author sometimes puts on a cynicism which does not go very deep; and the young lovers of his earlier tales had a disagreeable habit of swearing at young ladies, and ordering them about. Yet he has kept himself very clear from the disagreeable qualities of the French fiction he loves. His books never actually leave a bad taste in one's mouth, as Charlotte Bronte said of French novels; and, indeed, no one has touched with more delicate precision the vexed question of morality in art. He finely calls the longing after a moral ideal this southern slope of the mind, French Poets and Novelists, p. 114. and says of the ethical element, It is in reality simply a part of the richness of inspiration: it has nothing to do with the artistic process, and it has every thing to do with the artistic effect. French Poets and Novelists, p. 82. This is ad
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 7: passion flowers 1852-1858; aet. 33-39 (search)
nce and swore, like troopers, eternal friendship. Thence to Louisville, dear, a beastly place, where I saw the Negro jail, and the criminal court in session, trying a man for the harmless pleasantry of murdering his wife. Thence to St. Louis, where Chev left us and went to Kansas, and Fwotty and I boated it back here and went to a hotel, and the William Greenes they came and took us, and that's all for the present.... To the same Garret Platform, Lawton's Valley, July 13, 1857. Charlotte Bronte is deeply interesting, but I think she and I would not have liked each other, while still I see points of resemblance — many indeed -between us. Her life, on the whole, a very serious and instructive page in literary history. God rest her! she was as faithful and earnest as she was clever --she suffered much. ... Theodore Parker and wife came here last night, to stay a week if they like it (have just had a fight with a bumble-bee, in avoiding which I banged my head considerably aga
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)
H. I., II, 187. Bowles, Ada C., I, 318, 390. Boys' Reform School, I, 233. Bracebridge, C. N., I, 97, 280. Bracebridge, Mrs. C. N., I, 97, 280. Brahms, Johannes, II, 71, 156, 210. Brain Club, I, 201, 202, 215, 257, 264, 281. Brattleboro, I, 118, 119. Breadwinners' College, II, 128. Breschkovskaya, Catherine, II, 187, 188. Bridgman, Laura, I, 73, 74, 89, 95, 101, 102, 133; II, 8, 145, 262, 293. Bright, Jacob, I, 314. Broadwood, Louisa, II, 247, 255. Bronte, Charlotte, I, 170. Brooke, Lord, II, 165. Brooke, Stopford, II, 167. Brooklyn, I, 27; II, 202. Brooks, C. T., I, 255; II, 56. Brooks, Phillips, II, 75, 126, 127, 141, 162, 171, 172, 179. Brooks, Preston, I, 168. Brown, Anna, II, 57. Brown, Charlotte Emerson, II, 182. Brown, John, I, 151, 177, 179, 187, 381; II, 234. Brown, Mrs., John, I, 177. Brown, Olympia, I, 389. Brown University, I, 72, 297; II, 392. Browning, E. B., I, 201, 266; II, 167. Browning, R
Historic leaves, volume 2, April, 1903 - January, 1904, Literary men and women of Somerville. (search)
clusters wet. Go on between the tangled walls Of shining twigs, that drop the rain; Then 'round the hill, to greet again The purple day before it falls, And breathe the clover on the plain. Such bits from Nature occur on the background of country life. ‘The Quilting’ and ‘The Husking’ are two companion poems, through both of which a single love story runs, troublous, but with a happy ending. In ‘The Immortals,’ Mrs. Lowe celebrates heroes and friends that have gone from sight. Charlotte Bronte, Mrs. Browning, Chatterton, Shelley represent the English poets; Lowell, Emerson, Whittier, and E. R. Sill, the Americans; Channing and Brooks and Charles Lowe, her husband, the ministers; to say nothing of the several friends commemorated, dearer than any stranger. Let us choose a few stanzas from ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ written on the occasion of Emerson's funeral:— They bore him up the aisle, His white hands folded meekly on his breast; He had the very smile He wore the night h
The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1861., [Electronic resource], Death of Charlotte Bronte's father. (search)
Death of Charlotte Bronte's father. --The Rev. Patrick Bronte, the rather of the popular authoress, "Currer Bell," died at the parsonage in Haworth, on the 7th of June.--He was born in the year 1777, and was consequently 84 years old at the time of his death. He died comparatively alone, passing from earth as he had lived in it. A cold, gloomy, unsympathizing man, he had the reputation of being, and will be remembered as, the father of one of the rarest families that were ever born to man. His name dies with him, but the fame achieved by the suffering, long patient, persevering, spirital "Currer Acton, and Ellis Bell," is imperishable.