Oliver Wendell Holmes

After leading a busy social life in Ottawa and Toronto, they travelled via Niagara Falls to New York. They wintered in San Francisco, where IDH gathered material for novels. Among other distinguished...

During the few years following her husband's death, MADH travelled twice to the United States and once to Canada with her daughter Iza . The two women landed first in Canada in the latter part...

SG continued to teach herself throughout her life, mostly by reading on various subjects. Helen C. Black writes that SG particularly enjoyed non-fiction, such as natural history, physiology and other quasi-scientific subjects. But her...

Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...

EF 's circle of literary friends included Oliver Wendell Holmes , Joaquin Miller , James Russell Lowell , and Walt Whitman . She also made the acquaintance of many actors and actresses, including Henry Irving

One aspect of her visit was international networking for the discipline of Egyptology. Such prominent figures as James Russell Lowell , John Greenleaf Whittier , and Oliver Wendell Holmes joined forces to get her invited...

When it first appeared, RHD 's story met with wide critical acclaim and broad recognition from members of the American literary community.Emily Dickinson wrote to her sister-in-law for a copy. Davis's publisher...

FHB 's remark about her hero while he was still in process of composition—that I should not be surprised if he were very popular—turned out to be an extreme understatement. Fauntleroy was, says...