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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 9 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 22 (search)
by current fashion; and letters, as well as anything else, may be conventional and over-elaborate. Miss Austen and Miss Anna Seward died within a few years of each other; but Miss Austen's novels are simple, direct, and graphic, while Miss Seward'sMiss Seward's letters, so filled with wit and anecdote that they are good reading to this day, almost always rise into something inflated ere they close. Thus, after a delightful epistle to the then famous poet Hayley, sloe must needs close with this apology fo it, as thou dost, with resistless despotism. Yet all this is simplicity itself compared to the habitual inflation of Miss Seward's style when writing anything that is not a letter-as, for instance, her life of Dr. Erasmus Darwin. And I perfectly youth for what they would have called by no briefer name than epistolary correspondence, who modelled their style upon Miss Seward's, and would have disdained to close a letter with a sentence of one clause or a word of one syllable. They wrote cha
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
alem sea-captains, youthfulness of, 247. Sales-ladies, 172. Salisbury, Lord, 136. Salmon, L. M., 287. Sand, George. See Dudevant, A. L. A. Sanitary Commission, the, 235. Santa Claus agencies, 269. Sappho, 262. Sapsea, Thomas, 94. Schlemihl, Peter, 12. Scott, Sir, Walter, quoted 55. Also 19,157,194. Scudery, Charles de, 15. Scudery, Magdalen de, quoted, 15, 87, 159. search after A publisher, the, 151. secret of the birthday, 176. Sedgwick, C. M., 289. Seward, Anna, 113, 114. shadow of the harem, the, 12. Shakespeare, William, quoted, 56,91, 177, 178, 239. Also 19, 32, 49, 55, 102, 103, 108, 262. Shelley, P. B., 19. shy graces, the, 306. sick, on visiting the, 227. Siddons, Sarah, 250. Simms, W. G., 223. single will, the, 90. Sisters of Charity, 69. Size, physical, gradual diminution of, 262. Smith College, 275. social pendulum, the swing of the, 22. social superiors, 171. Society, origin of its usages, 77. Socrat