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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 4 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource] 4 4 Browse Search
Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 2 0 Browse Search
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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865, I. Across Sherman's track (December 19-24, 1864） (search)
left Milledgeville, and it began to rain in earnest. Then we lost the road, and as if that were not enough, the bride dropped her parasol and we had to stop there in the rain to look for it. A new silk parasol that cost four or five hundred dollars was too precious to lose. The colonel and the captain went back half a mile to get a torch, and after all, found the parasol lying right under her feet in the. body of the wagon. About nine o'clock we reached Scotsborough, the little American Cranford, where the Butlers used to have their summer home. Like Mrs. Gaskell's delightful little borough, it is inhabited chiefly by aristocratic widows and old maids, who rarely had their quiet lives disturbed by any event more exciting than a church fair, till Sherman's army marched through and gave them such a shaking up that it will give them something to talk about the rest of their days. Dr. Shine and the Texas captain had gone ahead of the wagon and made arrangements for our accommodation
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2, Suffrage for woman (1861） (search)
e barren and insipid, if it was not for this exquisite variety of capacities and endowments with which God has variegated the human race. I think woman is different from man, and by reason of that very difference, she should be in legislative halls, and everywhere else, in order to protect herself. But men say it would be very indelicate for woman to go to the ballot-box or sit in the legislature. Well, what would she see there? Why, she would see men. [Laughter.] She sees men now. In Cranford village, that sweet little sketch by Mrs. Gaskell, one of the characters says, I know these men,--my father was a man. [Laughter.] I think every woman can say the same. She meets men now, she could meet nothing but men at the ballot-box; or, if she meets brutes, they ought not to be there. [Applause.] Indelicate for her to go to the ballot-box!-but you may walk up and down Broadway any time from nine o'clock in the morning until nine at night, and you will find about equal numbers of men
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, Fayal and the Portuguese. (search)
ce christened The Crazy American. A lady must not be escorted home from an evening party by a gentleman, but by a servant with a lantern; and as the streets have no lamps, I never could see the breaking up of any such entertainment without recalling Retzsch's quaint pictures of the little German towns, and the burghers plodding home with their lanterns,--unless, perchance, what a German friend of ours called innocently a sit-down chair came rattling by, and transferred our associations to Cranford and Mr. Winkle. We found or fancied other Orientalisms. A visitor claps his hands at the head of the courtyard stairs, to summon an attendant. The solid chimneys, with windows in them, are precisely those described by Urquhart in his delightful Pillars of Hercules ; so are the gardens, divided into clean separate cells by tall hedges of cane; so is the game of ball played by the boys in the street, under the self-same Moorish name of arri; so is the mode of making butter, by tying up t
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work., Oldport in winter. (search)
d houses there often look forth delicate, faded countenances, to which belongs an air of unmistakable refinement. Nowhere in America, I fancy, does one see such counterparts of the reduced gentlewoman of England,--as described, for instance, in Cranford, --quiet maiden ladies of seventy, with perhaps a tradition of beauty and bellehood, and still wearing always a bit of blue ribbon on their once golden curls,--this headdress being still carefully arranged, each day, by some handmaiden of sixty, so long a house-mate as to seem a sister, though some faint suggestion of wages and subordination may be still preserved. Among these ladies, as in Cranford, there is a dignified reticence in respect to money-matters, and a courteous blindness to the small economies practised by each other. It is not held good-breeding, when they meet in a shop of a morning, for one to seem to notice what another buys. These ancient ladies have coats of arms upon their walls, hereditary damasks among thei
The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], The News. (search)
arl himself. But he intimates that it was determined to send a representative to our Government, in the person of one Mr. Cranford, who may be at this time groping his way through the dark belt of the blockade with which the enemy has engirdled the f Lord Clanricarde by inserting "so called"before "Confederate Government," and in referring to the measure of sending Mr. Cranford to Richmond he says: "I think it quite right of the British Government to endeavor to open communication with the so-cthe honorable acknowledgment of a palpable fact! It first sent a letter to the Confederate Government, asking whether Mr. Cranford or some one else would be received. As it had to come via Washington, Lincoln coolly sent this back to Earl Russell; and now we are given to understand that Mr. Cranford has been sent to get here as he may. Suppose Lincoln catches him, what will be done then.? It is a singular circumstance that the British Government, which has treated our representative with