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Widowhood
Tags: "Absence", "Angels of Grief", "I Slept and Dreamed that Life was Beauty", 1847, allopathy, duty, Ellen Sturgis Hooper, Frances Anne Butler, gift book, homeopathy, hurricane, hydropathy, hymns, invalid, Israelite, John Greenleaf Whittier, John Milton, Louisa C. Tuthill, marriage, Paradise Lost, patriarchy, Providence, religion, ship wreck, tempest, The Mirror of Life, widows
Who, and What, Has Not Failed
West Point
Tags: 1833, African American, Agrippa Hull, Coliseum, Corporal Trim, Diogene's lantern, exiles, Fort Putnam, freedom, General Henry Knox, George Washington, Juvenile Miscellany, Mike Lambourne, patriotism, Pelew Islands, pilgrimage, Poland, Polypus Island, Prince Lee Boo, Sancho Panza, Saratoga, servants, Sir Walter Scott, summer resorts, Tadeusz Kościuszko, the Kaatskills, Uncle Toby
Was it Providence?
Varieties of Social Life in New York
Tags: "Lovely Young Jessie", 1846, Antonio Canova, China, class, Columbian Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine, domestic arts, education, fashion, hospsitality, hostess, India, Joseph Fourier, Lord Chesterfield, manners, missionaries, New York City, Ole Bull, Paris, Quakers, Robert Burns, Robert Chambers, sculpture, Scylla and Charybdis, Society of Friends, soirees, The Gem of the Season, transcendentalism, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Wall Street, West Indies
Uncle David
Truth Versus Fiction
Tags: 1847, 4th of July, Consumption, daughters, Death, domesticity, fathers, fiction, filial duty, God, humility, invalid, labor, Louis XIV, Madame de Genlis, Madame de Stael, Mathew Carey, Methodist, New England, non-fiction, sewing, step-mother, submission, suffering, Ten Commandments, The Columbian Magazine, virtue, West
The White Scarf
Tags: 15th century, 1838, 1839, A New England Tale and Miscellanies, Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War (1407-1435), bourgeois, Charles VI of France, Count de Vaudemont, Duke of Burgundy [John the Fearless], feudalism, France, Historical fiction, Isabella of Bavaria, Italians, Italy, Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Jean de Montagu, John - Duke of Berry, literacy, Louis I Duke of Orleans, lynch law, marriage, mystery play, Notre Dame, Romance, scaffold, St. Therese, The Hesperian, The Token, torture rack, Valentina Visconti (Duchess of Orleans)
The White Hills in October
Tags: 1856, Ammonoosuck, Boston, cigars, daughters, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, fathers, filial piety, German, Glen Ellis Fall, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, hiking, hotels, hunting, immigration, inns, Irish, journal, Love, marriage, Mayflower, Mohammed, Moses, Mount Rhigi, Mount Washington, Mount Webster, Nancy's Brook, Nature, New England, New Hampshire, Pickwick, Portland, Prospero, railroad, restaurants, Rosalind, rowing, Shakespeare, sisters, The Heir of Redcliffe, Theseus, tourism, Travel, waterfalls, White Mountains, Wordsworth
The Unpresuming Mr. Hudson
Tags: "Edwin and Angelina", 1835, 1836, Andrew Jackson, Atalanta, bachelors, Benjamin Franklin, Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Pedrotti, dancing, daughters, Eliza Leslie, Female education, Fincastle coach, gentlemen, gift book, Hottentots, individualism, Jackson meetings, love poems, manners, marriage market, Mary Ann Paton (Mrs. Wood), modesty, Mothers, Natural Bridge, Oliver Goldsmith, single life, Sir Walter Scott, stage-coach, Sweet Spring, The Gift, Virginia, watering-places