Word: authoress
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...consists of seven short stories. They are not likely to keep one awake nights with excitement, but are, nevertheless, very entertaining, being (for the most part) quiet rural tales, written in an easy, "chatty" fashion, the pages of which contain many a charming glimpse of home-life. Indeed, the authoress possesses a remarkable faculty of sketching upon the page the pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second...
...view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens of America; its Senior class disporting itself in the salons of an ex-governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university feels a just pride in its advantages, and mentions them frequently in its journal, the malignant rival whose "disgusting jealousy" takes the form of "puerile gush" well deserves to be pelted with abuse, and then informed that "a man will not progress rapidly on a journey...