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Letter from Grace Greenwood to James Fields, Mar 3, 1854
Greenwood informs Fields about how he should take the medicine for nausea as prescribed by Dr. Laurie.Dickens awaits Haps and Mishaps with "friendly interest." She has not heard of Ticknor for some time and asks Fields to find poetry for The Little…
"An American Salon in Rome," Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 1881
The articles gives a definition and historical genealogy of salons with a specific focus on French salons. A salon is described as a social gathering "brought together by some leading maîtresse de maison, for the purpose of promoting an agreeable…
Mary Agnes Tincker's By the Tiber (1881)
In the Literary World, Vol 12 (1881), it says:"— No book published in Boston, this long time, has made more talk than Miss Tincker's By the Tiber, which we review elsewhere. That it is a personal matter has been taken for granted in some quarters,…
Anne Brewster about Blackwood and Gender Differences, Diary Entry Excerpts (1878)
The diary entries include discussions of illness, Brewster's anticipation of death, social networking, and payment negotiations with the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the Evening Telegraph. Brewster's brother initiated these negotiations as he…
Anne Brewster about Journalism and Finances, Diary Entry Excerpts (1876)
Brewster writes about health and financial concerns, she receives payment every 6 months and mentions her work for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, the Boston Advertiser, the N.Y. Graphic, and the New Century.She feels content to be "of money value…
Anne Brewster about Spinsterhood and Privacy, Diary Entry Excerpts (1876)
Brewster describes herself as a solitary old woman and spinster, "in love with my solitary life."By stating that "[i]t will be a hard winter in Rome especially for American astists, for there are no forestieri coming," Brewster assesses the economic…
Anne Brewster about Journalism and Payment, Diary Entry Excerpts (1877/78)
Brewster writes about her work for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin and the New York World.Brewster is deemed "a social outlaw" as she "hate[s] the arbitrary rules of privileged society" that she associates with "social charlatanism."For these…
Anne Brewster about Financial Independence, Diary Entry Excerpts (1878)
Anne Brewster finds herself earning "a comfortable independence." She is far better off than a year ago, working for Daily Evening Telegraph and Boston Advertiser.
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The Library Company of Philadelphia
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, June 27-29, 1863
Anne Brewster remembers her days in Naples. She advises Mary Howell to go with Charlotte Cushman to Rome, a trip for which Cushman will apparently pay. Brewster calls Cushman "immortal." Brewster assures Howell that "you are different from her other…
Letter from Helen Hunt Jackson to Anne Brewster, July 1869
Helen Hunt notices that Brewster's articles are quoted in different newspapers and states that "[e]ach such quotation in other papers doubles your value to the Bulletin [Philadelphia Evening Bulletin]."
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The Library Company of Philadelphia
Haps and Mishaps Review, London Athenaeum, Nov 18, 1854
The reviewer belittles Greenwood's admiring accounts of well-known people in her Haps and Mishaps of a Tour in Europe. The author criticizes her for misinterpreting certain conversations.
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Hathi Trust
"American Artists in Rome," Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, Feb 1869
The article starts with a graphic description of the Piazza di Spagna in a first-person plural narrative. It further includes passages on pieces of art in the studios that Brewster visited, buyers of portraits, reasons for purchases, the historical…
"Select Miscellany," The Enterprise and Vermonter, May 27, 1881
The summary of the articles in the recent issue of Lippincott's Magazine claims that Tincker's novel By the Tiber has sparked immense interest in Anne Brewster and her network.
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Newspaper.com
Letter from Anne Brewster to [Mary Agnes] Tincker, July 16, 1879
Anne Brewster advises Mary Agnes Tincker who will publish By the Tiber in 1881, a novel which includes references to Brewster and her circle in Rome, to stick to the truth whenever Tincker refers to something that has been talked about by the two…
Letter from Anne Brewster to Mary Howell, May 29, 1864
Brewster received an unaffected letter by Cushman and mentions the Hawthornes as neighbors.
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The Library Company of Philadelphia
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