Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and DiaryAddison, Daniel Dulany
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Lucy Larcom: Life, Letters, and Diary
Addison, Daniel Dulany
Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography; Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893
love for mountains, 100;
on the Rebellion, 101;
concerning her diary, 103;
concerning gossip, 110;
on child’s knowledge of the Bible, 120;
sleigh-ride to Attleboro’, 122;
on Sarah Paine’s death, 128;
hears Emerson, 125;
education of nieces, 127;
religious talks with scholars, 129;
introspection, 132;
thoughts on the resurrection, 133;
love for the Whittiers, 135;
singing around Liberty Pole, 139;
prays for C----, 140;
skeptical, 141;
school trials, 141;
death of C----, 144;
visits Andover, 145;
letter to Mr. Fields, enclosing poem, 149;
letter to Whittier about the mountains, 150;
gives up teaching at Wheaton, 152;
home in Waterbury, 152;
writes for the Atlantic, 153;
letter about death of her sister Louisa, 155;
edits “Our Young Folks,” 157;
publishes “Breathings of the Better Life,” 159;
letters to Mrs. James T. Fields, 159-163;
letter to Mrs. Thaxter, 163;
letter to Miss Ingelow, 165;
letter to Mr. Whittier about her mother’s illness, 170;
publishes “Poems,” 173;
name of, 175;
work with Mr. Whittier, 175;
letters to Mrs. Dodge, 177;
publishes “An Idyl of Work,” 179;
prints “Roadside Poems,” 180;
letter on Romans, 181;
visits Bermuda, 182;
prints “Landscape in American Poetry,” 183;
letter to Mrs. Wheaton, 183;
present at breakfast to Dr. Holmes, 184;
first meeting with Phillips Brooks, 185;
prints “Wild Roses of Cape Ann,” 187;
letter to Mr. Pickard, 188;
criticism of her poetry, 189-198;
letter to Dr. Hunter, 197;
religious changes, 200;
letter to Franklin Carter, 205;
learns to know the Episcopal Church, 107-120;
opinion of faith-cure, 212;
reads Renan, 216;
letter from Nova Scotia, 223;
letter to Phillips Brooks, 225;
summer homes of, 227;
on Theosophy, 231;
conversation with Mr. Whittier about finances, 233;
visits President Carter, 237;
prints “A New England Girlhood,” 238;
communes at Trinity Church, 244;
confirmed, 252;
converses with Mr. Brooks, 269-270;
illness of, 280-281;
letter to Miss Fobes, 282;
last letter to Phillips Brooks, 285;
on the death of Mr. Brooks, 287;
death of, 289;
burial of, 290.
Larcom, Mordecai, 1.
Lavater, 119.
Lawrence Mills, 15.
Lazarus, Emma, 259.
Lebanon, 31.
Lee, surrender of, 156.
Leigh, Miss, 247.
Liberty Pole, 139.
Lincoln, Abraham, 191;
assassination of, 156.
Longfellow, H. W., 80, 166, 179, 180, 196;
letter to Miss Larcom, 198;
death of, 220.
Longfellow, Rev. Samuel, 65.
Lowell, mills in, 6;
lyceum of, 8;
poem on, 179;
article in Atlantic Monthly on, 239.
Lowell, Francis Cabot, 7.
Lowell, J. R., 180.
Lowell, Maria, 196.
Lowell Offering, 10.
“Loyal Woman’s No,” 58, 153.
Maine, 226.
Maintenon, Madame de, 93.
Manassas, 130.
Mansel, Dean, 75.
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