Our Famous Women: An Authorized Record of the Lives and Deeds of Distinguished American Women of Our TimesA. D. Worthington, 1885 - 715 sider |
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... Carrying the Audience Captive - Wild Enthusiasm - Triumphant Suc- - Verdict of the Critics — Visits Europe - Début in Lon- don - A Brilliant and Enthusiastic Audience - Acknowledged to be the Queen of Song Return to America New York ...
... Carrying the Audience Captive - Wild Enthusiasm - Triumphant Suc- - Verdict of the Critics — Visits Europe - Début in Lon- don - A Brilliant and Enthusiastic Audience - Acknowledged to be the Queen of Song Return to America New York ...
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... carrying out her resolution to be , for evermore , self - helpful and independent . And she succeeded triumphantly . By teaching , sewing , writing — anything that came to hand to be done she not only supported herself for many long ...
... carrying out her resolution to be , for evermore , self - helpful and independent . And she succeeded triumphantly . By teaching , sewing , writing — anything that came to hand to be done she not only supported herself for many long ...
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... carried him to Mexico and his fate . I am a teacher . Not all Miss Alcott's odd letters , however , are of the " your - money - or - your - life ” order . Here is one which con- tains an amusing offer of assistance : — DEAR AUNT Jo , -I ...
... carried him to Mexico and his fate . I am a teacher . Not all Miss Alcott's odd letters , however , are of the " your - money - or - your - life ” order . Here is one which con- tains an amusing offer of assistance : — DEAR AUNT Jo , -I ...
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... carry a dozen plots in her head at a time , thinking them over whenever she is in the mood . Sometimes she carries a plot thus for years , and suddenly finds it all ready to be written . Often , in the dead waste and middle of the night ...
... carry a dozen plots in her head at a time , thinking them over whenever she is in the mood . Sometimes she carries a plot thus for years , and suddenly finds it all ready to be written . Often , in the dead waste and middle of the night ...
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... carried her red flag of rebellion into the State conventions of teachers , and there fought , almost single- handed , the battle of equality . At the close of the first decade she had compelled conservatism to yield its ground so far as ...
... carried her red flag of rebellion into the State conventions of teachers , and there fought , almost single- handed , the battle of equality . At the close of the first decade she had compelled conservatism to yield its ground so far as ...
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Alice Cary America artist beautiful began born Boston called character Charlotte Cushman charming child church Clara Barton Clara Louise Kellogg daughter dear death delight devoted dollars early Elizabeth Elizabeth Cady Stanton England eyes father feeling flowers Frances Frances Hodgson Burnett genius girl hand happy Harriet HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD heart honor hospital hour human husband labor lady letters literary lived Livermore Louise LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Lucretia Mott LUCY LARCOM Margaret Fuller Mary Clemmer mind Miss Alcott Miss Anthony Miss Barton Miss Beecher Miss Cushman Miss Mitchell mother nature never once poems poet published Red Cross ROSE TERRY COOKE says seemed sing sister society soul spirit Stanton story success sweet sympathy teacher tender things thought tion voice woman women words writing wrote York young
Populære avsnitt
Side 57 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Side 125 - And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine ; A Being breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller between life and death ; The reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill ; A perfect Woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command ; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light.
Side 594 - The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her.
Side 594 - Resolved, That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.
Side 458 - In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were unoccupied, and the travellers walked through byways. 7 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.
Side 131 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Side 594 - Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and to her God. "He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self-respect and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.
Side 51 - ... fierce, funny, or thoughtful. Her long, thick hair was her one beauty; but it was usually bundled into a net, to be out of her way. Round shoulders had Jo, big hands and feet, a fly-away look to her clothes, and the uncomfortable appearance of a girl who was rapidly shooting up into a woman, and didn't like it.
Side 209 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
Side 200 - Be sure that God Ne'er dooms to waste the strength he deigns impart ! Ask the gier-eagle why she stoops at once Into the vast and unexplored abyss, What full-grown power informs her from the first, Why she not marvels, strenuously beating The silent boundless regions of the sky!