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Gardiner (Maine, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
of Greek origin, her father's successor in charge of the Institution for the Blind, and the news of her early death was received with general sorrow. Mrs. Howe's second daughter was named Florence Marion, became in 1871 the wife of David Prescott Hall, of the New York Bar, and was author of Social customs and The correct thing, being also a frequent speaker before the women's clubs. Mrs. Howe's third daughter, Mrs. Laura E. Richards, was married in the same year to Henry Richards, of Gardiner, Maine, a town named for the family of Mr. Richards's mother, who established there a once famous school, the Gardiner Lyceum. The younger Mrs. Richards is author of Captain January and other stories of very wide circulation, written primarily for her own children, and culminating in a set of nonsense books of irresistible humor illustrated by herself. Mrs. Howe's youngest daughter, Maud, distinguished for her beauty and social attractiveness, is the wife of Mr. John Elliott, an English arti
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
r. I remember well that household of young people in successive summers at Newport, as they grew towards maturity; how they in turn came back from school and cozing, and one of them, at least, with a talent for cookery which delighted all Newport; then their wooings and marriages, always happy; their lives always busy; theindship in the same life. Having herself the entree of whatever the fashion of Newport could in those days afford; entertaining brilliant or showy guests from New Yod, a group of people so cultivated and agreeable as existed for a few years in Newport in the summers. There were present, as intellectual and social forces, not me a perpetual youth, and what is youth if it be not fearless? In her earlier Newport period she was always kind and hospitable, sometimes dreamy and forgetful, note we rest ourselves here! The next to arrive was a German baron well known in Newport and Cambridge,--a great authority in entomology, who always lamented that he h
Cuba (Cuba) (search for this): chapter 21
uest, in those days, by the very quickness which gave her no time for second thought. Yet, after all, of what quickness of wit may not this be said? Time, practice, the habit of speaking in public meetings or presiding over them, these helped to array all her quickwittedness on the side of tact and courtesy. Mrs. Howe was one of the earliest contributors to the Atlantic Monthly. Her poem Hamlet at the Boston appeared in the second year of the magazine, in February, 1859, and her Trip to Cuba appeared in six successive numbers in that and the following volume. Her poem The last Bird also appeared in one of these volumes, after which there was an interval of two and a half years during which her contributions were suspended. Several more of her poems came out in volume VIII (1861), and the Battle hymn of the Republic in the number for February, 1862 (ix, 145). During the next two years there appeared six numbers of a striking series called Lyrics of the Street. Most of these poe
Paris, Ky. (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
mother one of the few who could unite all kinds of friendship in the same life. Having herself the entree of whatever the fashion of Newport could in those days afford; entertaining brilliant or showy guests from New York, Washington, London, or Paris; her doors were as readily open at the same time to the plainest or most modest reformer-abolitionist, woman suffragist, or Quaker; and this as a matter of course, without struggle. I remember the indignation over this of a young visitor from Ithy he wished to see her, replied, Well, I did put my brother in the poorhouse, and now that I have heard Mrs. Howe, I suppose that I must take him out. In the large collection of essays comprised in the same volume with this, there are papers on Paris and on Greece which are full of the finest flavor of anecdote, sympathy, and memory, while here and there in all her books one meets with glimpses of Italy which remind one of that scene on the celebration of the birthday of Columbus, when she sa
Brazil (Brazil) (search for this): chapter 21
rings, the Partons, the Potters, the Woolseys, the Hunts, the Rogerses, the Hartes, the Hollands, the Goodwins, Kate Field, and others besides, who were readily brought together for any intellectual enjoyment. No one was the recognized leader, though Mrs. Howe came nearest to it; but they met as cheery companions, nearly all of whom have passed away. One also saw at their houses some agreeable companions and foreign notabilities, as when Mr. Bancroft entertained the Emperor and Empress of Brazil, passing under an assumed name, but still attended by a veteran maid, who took occasion to remind everybody that her Majesty was a Bourbon, with no amusing result except that one good lady and experienced traveler bent one knee for an instant in her salutation. The nearest contact of this circle with the unequivocally fashionable world was perhaps when Mrs. William B. Astor, the mother of the present representative of that name in England, and herself a lover of all things intellectual, cam
Concord (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
born at the house of her parents in the Bowling Green, New York city, on May 27, 1819. She was married on April 14, 1843, at nearly twenty-four years of age, to Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whom she had met on visits to Boston. They soon went to Europe, the first of many similar voyages,--where her eldest daughter, Julia Romana, was born during the next spring. This daughter was the author of a volume of poems entitled Stray Clouds, and of a description of the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord entitled Philosophiae Quaestor, and was the founder of a metaphysical club of which she was president. She became the wife of the late Michael Anagnos, of Greek origin, her father's successor in charge of the Institution for the Blind, and the news of her early death was received with general sorrow. Mrs. Howe's second daughter was named Florence Marion, became in 1871 the wife of David Prescott Hall, of the New York Bar, and was author of Social customs and The correct thing, being also
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 21
s circle that the Town and country Club was formed, of which Mrs. Howe was president and I had the humbler functions of vice-president, and it was under its auspices that the festival indicated in the following programme took place, at the always attractive seaside house of the late Mr. and Mrs. John W. Bigelow, of New York. The plan was modeled after the Harvard Commencement exercises, and its Latin programme, prepared by Professor Lane, then one of the highest classical authorities in New England, gave a list of speakers and subjects, the latter almost all drawn from Mrs. Howe's ready wit. Feminae Inlustrissimae Praestantissimae · Doctissimae · Peritissimae Omnium * Scientarvum * Doctrici Omnium * Bonarum * Artium * Magistrae Dominae Iulia * Ward * Howe Praesidi · Magnificentissimae Viro Honoratissimo Duci Fortissimo In Litteris * Humanioribus Optime Versato Domi * Militiaeque * Gloriam Insignem * Nacto Domino Thomae * Wentworth * Higginsoni Propraesidi * Vigilanti Necnon Omni
Bowling Green (Kentucky, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
wn sweet tongue from her. Then, as always, she could trust herself freely in speech, for she never spoke without fresh adaptation to the occasion, and her fortunate memory for words and names is unimpaired at ninety. Since I am here engaged upon a mere sketch of Mrs. Howe, not a formal memoir, I have felt free to postpone until this time the details of her birth and parentage. She was the daughter of Samuel and Julia Rush (Cutler) Ward, and was born at the house of her parents in the Bowling Green, New York city, on May 27, 1819. She was married on April 14, 1843, at nearly twenty-four years of age, to Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe, whom she had met on visits to Boston. They soon went to Europe, the first of many similar voyages,--where her eldest daughter, Julia Romana, was born during the next spring. This daughter was the author of a volume of poems entitled Stray Clouds, and of a description of the Summer School of Philosophy at Concord entitled Philosophiae Quaestor, and was the
Alpine, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
aint and frail Till Love meets Love, and bids it hail. I see the chasm, yawning dread; I see the flaming arch o'erhead: I stake my life upon the red. This was my daring supplement, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly (Contributors' Club) for October, 1906. La couleur I stake my life upon the red! With hair still golden on her head, Dame Julia of the Valley said. But Time for her has plans not told, And while her patient years unfold They yield the white and not the gold. Where Alpine summits loftiest lie, The brown, the green, the red pass by, And whitest top is next the sky. And now with meeker garb bedight, Dame Julia sings in loftier light, I stake my life upon the white! Turning to Mrs. Howe's prose works, one finds something of the same obstruction, here and there, from excess of material. Her autobiography, entitled Reminiscences, might easily, in the hands of Mr. M. D. Conway, for instance, have been spread out into three or four interesting octavos; but in
Quaker (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 21
under which wild erratic natures grow calm. A fine training it was also, for these children themselves, to see their mother one of the few who could unite all kinds of friendship in the same life. Having herself the entree of whatever the fashion of Newport could in those days afford; entertaining brilliant or showy guests from New York, Washington, London, or Paris; her doors were as readily open at the same time to the plainest or most modest reformer-abolitionist, woman suffragist, or Quaker; and this as a matter of course, without struggle. I remember the indignation over this of a young visitor from Italy, one of her own kindred, who was in early girlhood so independently un-American that she came to this country only through defiance. Her brother had said to her after one of her tirades, Why do you not go there and see for yourself? She responded, So I will, and sailed the next week. Once arrived, she antagonized everything, and I went in one day and found her reclining
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