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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 1: birth, parentage, childhood (search)
said to me: Julia, your mother's tact was remarkable, and she showed it on that day, for, knowing me to be a young woman of serious character, she presented me on my arrival with a plain linen collar which she had made for me. On a table beside her lay Law's Serious call to the Unconverted. Don't you see how well she had suited matters to my taste? This aged relative used to boast that she had never read a novel. She desired to make one exception in favor of the story of the Schonbergr Cotta family, but, hearing that it was a work of fiction, esteemed it safest to adhere to the rule which she had observed for so many years. Her son, lately deceased, once told me that when she felt called upon to chastise him for some childish offense, she would pray over him so long that he would cry out: Mother, it's time to begin whipping. Her husband was a son of General Nathanael Greene, of Revolutionary fame. The attention bestowed upon impressions of childhood to-day will, I hope,
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
spoken there, 352; secret Bible society in, 353; debating club there, 354; a city of shopkeepers, 355; pleasant winter climate of, 358; longevity of the negroes in, 364; characteristics of the people, 366. Sargent, Rev. John T., meetings of the Boston Radical Club at his house, 281. Satan, idea of, 62. Schiller, Mrs. Howe's essay on his minor poems, 60; plays read, 206. Schlesinger, Daniel, Mrs. Howe's music teacher, stanzas on his death, 58. Schliemann, Mrs., 410. Schonberg-Cotta family, The, 6. Schubert, his music played at the Ward home, 49. Schumann, the composer, 40. Schumann, Madame (Clara Wieck), mentioned by Mrs. Jameson, 40. Scotland, the Howes in, 111, 112. Scott, Sir, Walter, 28; his novel Kenilworth, play founded on, 57; grave of, at Abbotsford, 111 works lightly esteemed by Charles Sumner, 169. Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, on John Kenyon, 108; her letter of introduction to Count Gonfalonieri, 119; praises a line from Passion Flowers, 228.