Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition
Forfatter: Maud Howe Elliott
År: 1893
Forlag: Goupil & Co.
Sted: Paris and New York
Sider: 287
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
Chigaco, 1893.
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98
ART AND HANDICRAFT
lovely woman, and one might spend an hour much less profitably
than in making or renewing acquaintance with, her writings.
In looking back at these early lights, we must not forget the
Davidson sisters, Lucretia and Margaret, that lovely pair whose
story was so touchingly and beautifully told by Washington Irving.
WALL HANGING REPRESENTING THE GODDESS BONOMIE.
Figure by Burne-Jones, Belonging to the Royal School of Art Needlework.
England.
It is a sad little story of too early development, hectic beauty and
blossoming, and death, by consumption almost before womanhood
was attained. Lucretia, poor child, wrote 278 poems, and died at
seventeen. Margaret’s record is scarcely less startling and painful.