| | 126 | Author: | Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Helen Jackson  | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | THE news of the death of Mrs. Helen Jackson — better known as
"H. H." — will probably carry a pang of regret into more American
homes than similar intelligence in regard to any other woman, with
the possible exception of Mrs. H. B. Stowe, who belongs to an
earlier literary generation. With this last-named exception, no
American woman has produced literary work of such marked
ability. Her fame was limited by the comparatively late period at
which she began to write, and by her preference for a somewhat
veiled and disguised way of writing. It is hard for two initial letters
to cross the Atlantic, and she had therefore no European fame; and
as she took apparently a real satisfaction in concealing her identity
and mystifying her public, it is very likely that the authorship of
some of her best prose work will never be absolutely known.
Enough remained, however, to give her a peculiar both hold upon
thoughtful and casual readers. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 132 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Artistic Side of Chicago | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | ONE who enters Chicago unacquainted with it, having no open
sesame to its hospitable doors, knowing the city only by its streets,
its hotels, and its theatres, is disturbed by an unpleasant emotion. If
he comes from some well-regulated, cultivated, and placid town of
the eastern part of this country, or from England or Germany, he
feels shaken out of poise and peace by a tremendous discord. He
sees a city ankle-deep in dirt, swathed in smoke, wild with noise,
and frantic with the stress of life. He sees confusion rampant, and
the fret and fume of the town rise and brood above it like hideous
Afrits. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 135 | Author: | Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, 1862-1935 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Shehens` Houn` Dogs | | | | Published: | 1999 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | EDWARD Berenson, the Washington correspondent for the New
York News, descended from the sleeping-car at Hardin,
Kentucky, and inquired for the stage to Ballington's Gap. But there
was, it appeared, no stage. Neither was a conveyance to be hired.
The community looked at Berenson and went by on the other side.
He had, indeed, as he recollected, with a too confiding candor,
registered himself from Washington, and there were reasons in
plenty why strangers should not be taken over to Ballington's Gap
promiscuously, so to speak, by the neighbors at Hardin. Berenson
had come down from Washington with a purpose, however, and he
was not to be frustrated. He wished to inquire — politely — why, for
four generations, the Shehens and the Babbs had been killing each
other. He meant to put the question calmly and in the interest of
scientific journalism, but he was quite determined to have it
answered. To this end he bought a lank mare for seventy-five
dollars — "an th' fixin's thrown in, sah" — and set out upon a red
road, bound for the Arcadian distance. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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