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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 7: marriage: tour in Europe (search)
panions were affected in the same way, and were making the same effort. I saw Miss Faucit again at an entertainment given in aid of the fund for a monument to Mrs. Siddons. She recited an ode written for the occasion, of which I still recall the closing line:— And measure what we owe by what she gave. I saw Grisi in the phrenologist, George Combe, in Rome at this time added much to Dr. Howe's enjoyment of the winter, and to mine. His wife was a daughter of the great actress, Mrs. Siddons, and was a person of excellent mind and manners. Observing that she always appeared in black, I asked one day whether she was in mourning for a near relative.ble, who was a cousin of Mrs. Combe, once related the following anecdote to Dr. Howe and myself: Cecilia [Mrs. Combe] had grown up in her mother's shadow, for Mrs. Siddons was to the last such a social idol as to absorb the notice of people wherever she went, leaving little attention to be bestowed upon her daughter. This was ra
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
ds to Washington Allston, 429. Columbia College, its situation on Park Placeits conservatism: eminent professors at, 23; Samuel Ward attends, 67. Combe, George, 22; in Rome, 131,132; his Constitution of Man, 133. Combe, Mrs. George (Cecilia Siddons), anecdote of, 132. Commonwealth, The 252. Comte, Auguste, his Philosophie Positive, 211; Mrs. Howe's etimate of, 307. Conjugal Love, Swedenborg's, 209. Constantinople, the fall of, drama upon, 57. Consuelo, George Sand's, revki, 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 Howe