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Who, and What, Has Not Failed
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
Scene at Niagara
The Falls of Bash-Pish, or The Eagle's Nest
Tags: "Gerusalemme Liberata", "Green River", "Monument Mountain", 1839, Antonio, Barrington, Bash Bish falls, Bash-Pish, Berkshires, Canaan Falls, Carbonari, Catholicism, Clorinda, Connecticut, Eleuterio Felice Foresti, Fridolin of Säckingen, furnaces, German, Housatonic, inns, Italian, Jahconick, journal, Kaatskills, Merchant of Venice, Mount Rhiga, Mount Washington, picturesque, Polish, Portia, Salisbury, Saxon, Schaffhausen, Seged, Shakespeare, Sheffield, Shylock, Southern Literary Messenger, Spielberg fortress, Stockbridge, Torquato Tasso, Touchstone, tourism, travel writing, William Cullen Bryant
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
An Excursion to Manchester
Tags: 1847, Abbot Lawrence, Amos Lawrence, capitalism, Caroline M. Kirkland, democracy, factory, Harvard, Immigrants, Irish, June, laborers, Lowell train, Manchester, manufacuturing, Massachusetts, Merrimack, Midas, mills, Nature, New Hampshire, Old World, philanthropy, railcar, railroad, Sartain's Union Magazine, Williams College, women and work, working class
Slavery in New England
Tags: 1853, A Midsummer Night's Dream, anti-slavery, Beatrice Cenci, Bentley's Miscellany, Berkshires, Caliban, Charles Follen, child abuse, Church Membership, Declaration of Independence, Eden, Elizabeth Freeman, freedom, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Martineau, incest, Jack Cade, Massachusetts, Mum-Bett, Mumbet, Nick Bottom, servant, Shakespeare, Shay's Rebellion, Sheffield, slavery, Society in America, The Tempest, Theodore Sedgwick, Uncle Toby, Uncle Tom's Cabin
A Huguenot Family
Tags: 1842, Catholic, childbirth, crucifix, Edict of Nantes, emigration, France, Godey's Lady's Book, heretic, Historical fiction, Huguenot, Louis XIV, Madame de Maintenon, Madame de Sevigne, Madame Montespan, martyrs, midwife, mother, New World, persecution, physician, Poitu, Prison, prison escape, Protestant, Sarah Josepha Hale, servants, sons, Tales and Sketches - Second Series
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