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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 5: more changes--1886-1888; aet. 67-69 (search)
emed, as it often does, great to have known these things, little to have done so little in consequence. November 27. Finished my lecture on Woman in the Greek Drama. It was high time, as my head and eyes are tired with the persistent strain.... All the past week has been hard work. No pleasure reading except a very little in the evening. December 1. . . . Took 2.30 train for Melrose .... I read my new lecture--Woman as shown by the Greek Dramatists: of whom I quoted from Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Aristophanes. A Club Tea followed: a pleasant one. I asked the mothers present whether they educated their daughters in hygiene and housekeeping. The response was not enthusiastic, and people were more disposed to talk of the outer world, careers of women, business or profession, than to speak of the home business. One young girl, however, told us that she was a housekeeping girl; a very pleasant lady, Mrs. Burr, had been trained by her mother, to her own great advantage. Decem
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 6: seventy years young 1889-1890; aet. 70-71 (search)
otably John Sullivan Dwight, long-time Boston's chief musical critic. Many a sympathetic talk they had together; one can see him now, his eyes burning gentle fire, head nodding, hands waving, as he denounced what seemed to him wanton cacophony. She avoided the Symphony Concerts at which the new music was exploited; but it was positive pain to her to miss a symphony of Beethoven or Schubert. In March of this year the Saturday Morning Club of Boston gave a performance of the Antigone of Sophocles. In afternoon to the second representation of the Antigone. . . . On the whole very pathetic and powerful. Mrs. Tilden full of dramatic fire; Sally Fairchild ideally beautiful in dress, attitude, and expression. The whole a high feast of beauty and of poetry. The male parts wonderfully illusive, especially that of Tiresias, the seer.... To Laura 241 Beacon Street, Boston, April 26, 1890. I'se very sorry for unhandsome neglect complained of in your last. What are we going to do
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
Silsbee, Mrs., I, 264. Singleton, Violet Fane, II, 5. Siouz, I, 380. Sirani, Elisabetta, II, 27. Sistine Chapel, I, 269. Smalley, Mrs., II, 168. Smiley, Albert, II, 326. Smith, Amy, I, 4. Smith, Mrs. E., I, 45, 46. Smith, Sydney, I, 82. Smith, Mrs., Sydney, I, 85. Smith College, I, 361; II, 411, 412. Smyrna, II, 42. Snyders, Franz, I, 42, 147. Socrates, I, 290, 354. Somerset, Lady, Henry, II, 170, 171, 201, 210. Sonnenberg, II, 175, 176. Sophocles, II, 130, 157. Sorosis Club, I, 373; II, 215. Sorrento, II, 389. Sothern, E. A., I, 143. South Berwick, II, 317. South Boston, I, 102, 123, 134, 154, 156, 180; II, 116. South Carolina, I, 11, 168. Spain, I, 4. Spanish-American War, II, 255. Speare, William, II, 45. Specie Circular, I, 61. Spencer, Anna G., II, 358. Speranza, Prof., II, 285. Spielberg, I, 94. Spinola, Contessa, II, 251. Spinoza, Baruch, I, 33, 192, 195, 200, 202, 206, 253. Spo