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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 20: friends and worthies: social successes (search)
of Boylston Street now wholly devoted to business. Mrs. Benzon was a sister of the well-known Lehmann artists and of the father of the late coach of the Harvard boating crew. She was very fond of music, and it was at one of her soirees that Elise Hensler made her first appearance and sang, with fine expression and a beautiful fresh voice, the air from Robert le Diable: — Va, dit-elle, va, mon enfant, Dire au fils qui m'a delaissee. These friends, with others, interested themselves in MissMiss Hensler's musical education and enabled her to complete her studies in Paris. As is well known, she became a favorite prima donna in light opera, and was finally heard of as the morganatic wife of the King (consort) Ferdinand of Portugal. Madame Sontag and her husband, Count Rossi, came often to the Benzon house. I met them there one day at dinner, when in the course of conversation Madame Sontag said that she never acted in private life. The count remarked rather rudely, I saw you enact
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
Radical Club, 282; defends Protestant progress, 285; his Phi Beta address, 295; pastorates in Providence and Boston, 296, 297; second Phi Beta address, 298; becomes professor of German at Harvard, 299; fondness for the drama, 299, 300; his high opinion of Margaret Fuller, 300, 301; his statement of the Unitarian faith, 302; broadening effect of his studies in Germany, 303. Hegel, the German philosopher, 209; estimates of, 210; his Aesthetik and Logik, 212. Hell, ideas of, 62. Hensler, Miss, Elise, sings first at Mrs. Benzon's house, 435. Herder, works of, read, 59, 206. Herne, Colonel, first husband of Mrs. Cutler, Mrs. Howe's grandmother, 35. Heron, Matilda, in The World's Own, 230. Higginson, Colonel Thomas Went worth, at the Shadrach meeting, 165; his paper Ought Women to learn the Alphabet, 232; his position on Christianity at the Radical Club, 285; at the woman suffrage meeting, 375; aids that cause, 382; at New port, 402; at a mock Commencement, 4003; becomes