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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 15: a woman's peace crusade (search)
th Miss Frances Power Cobbe was pleasantly renewed, and I remember attending an afternoon reception at her house, at which a number of literary notabilities were present, among them the brilliant historian, Mr. Froude. I had the pleasure also of meeting Mrs. Peter Taylor, founder of a college for working women; she and her husband had been very friendly to the Northern side during the civil war. An important movement had been set on foot just at this time by Mrs. Grey and her sister, Miss Sherret. This was the institution of schools for girls of the middle class, whose education, up to that time, had usually been conducted at home by a governess. Mrs. Grey encountered a good deal of opposition in carrying out her plans. She invited me to attend a meeting in the Albert Hall, Kensington, where these plans were to be fully discussed. The Bishop of Manchester spoke in opposition to the proposed schools. He took occasion to make mention of a visit which he had recently made to the
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
on, 108; her letter of introduction to Count Gonfalonieri, 119; praises a line from Passion Flowers, 228. Sedgwick, Mrs. Theodore (Susan Ridley), 90. Seeley, Prof. J. R., hospitality and kindness to Mrs. Howe: his lecture on Burke, 335. Sewall, Judge Samuel E., aids the woman suffrage movement, 382. Seward, William H., secretary of state, stigmatized by Count Gurowski, 222. Shaw, Mrs. Quincy A., 184. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, his books prohibited in the Ward family, 58. Sherret, Miss, her interest in schools for girls of the middle class, 333. Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha Butt), her stories, 48. Siddons, Mrs. William (Sarah Kemble), fund for her monument, 104; her daughter, 131. Sillhman Prof. Benjamin, of Yale College, 22. Smith, Alfred, real estate agent of Newport, 238. Smith, Mrs., Seba, 166. Smith, Rev., Sydney, calls on the Howes: his reputation as a wit, 91; appearance, 92; anecdotes of, 92-95; pleasantry about Lord Morpeth, 107. Smith, Mrs.,