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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100
ART AND HANDICRAFT
One wishes they might have lived to-day, and have had some
chance of rounding out their gentle lives.
Next we have Mrs. Frances Osgood, author of “ A Wreath of
Flowers from New England,” and other volumes of poetry; and,
contemporary with her, the commanding figure of Margaret Fuller.
It would be pleasant to dwell at some length on the life of this
amazing woman, who began, to write Latin verses at eight years
PORTFOLIO CONTAINING PORTRAITS OF DISTINGUISHED
SWEDISH WOMEN.
old, and whose powers were at their height when the fatal storm
of July 16, 1850, hurried her, with all she loved, to her ocean grave;
but this brief record can do little more than mention names and
dates, and those who do not know Queen Margaret’s story are
prayed to read it, in Mrs. Howe’s memoir of her.
Lydia Maria Child was older than either of the two last-named