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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard) 13 1 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 3 3 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli 2 2 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 1 2 2 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Oldport days, with ten heliotype illustrations from views taken in Newport, R. I., expressly for this work. 1 1 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 15 (search)
A charming American woman, the late Mrs. Sidney Brooks of New York, who retained into age all the attractiveness and much even of the physical beauty of her youth, once told me that the secret of the invariable popularity of the celebrated Madame Recamier was that she really felt the universal kindliness she expressed. Mrs. Brooks had been in youth a great favorite of this distinguished French woman, and had been admitted to her society at all times, except when the appearance of a large pair of wooden sabots, or overshoes, outside the door of the boudoir announced that the venerable author M. de Chateaubriand was having an interview. She said that at Madame Recamier's receptions it was always understood that the friends of the hostess must amuse one another, leaving her wholly free to attend to her strangers --mes étrangers, she called them --who, precisely because they were such, needed all the special attention that could be given them. This was surely to unite Tennyson's tw
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
86. Plato cited, 178. Plea for the uncommonplace, A, 192. Poe, E. A., 289. Pontius cum Judaeis, 256. Porter, Jane, 157. Precieuses, the, 87. Presidency in United States, 128. Prince Hal, 49. publisher, the search after A, 151. Punch and Judy, the brutality of, 254. Purse, the independent, 115. Q. Quite rustic, 100. R. Rachel, 250, 252, 263. Radcliffe, Ann, 160. Rambouillet, Marquis de, 86. Ramona, influence of, 236. Rank in England, 126. Recamier, Madame, 76, 77. Relationship to one's mother, on one's, 43. return to the hills, A, 301. Richardson, Samuel, 11. Richelieu, Cardinal, 87. Robespierre, F. J. M. I., 6. Rochejaquelein, Baroness de la, 56. Rochester, Lord, 5. Rogers, Professor W. B., 96, 287. Roland, Madame, 236. Romola, 260. Routledge, George, 18, 19. Royalty, childishness of, 21, 105. royalty, the toy of, 105. Rudder Grange quoted, 42. Ruskin, John, quoted, 100. S. St. Leonards, Lord, 138. Sa