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Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Chapter 3: New York society (search)
cient rule when the younger children were married before the older ones. In spite of the costume which met with her daughter's disapproval, my maternal grandmother was not indifferent to dress. She used to lament the ugliness of modern fashions, and to extol those of her youth, in which she was one of the élegantes of Southern society. She remembered with pleasure that General Washington once crossed a ball-room to speak with her. This was probably when she was the wife or widow of Colonel Herne, to whom she was married at the age of fourteen (when her dolls, she told me, were taken away from her), and whose death occurred before she had attained legal majority. She had received a good musical education for those times, and Colonel Perkins of Boston once told me that he remembered her as a fascinating young widow with a lovely voice. It must have been during her visit to Boston that she met my grandfather Cutler, who straightway fell in love with and married her. When past her
Jula Ward Howe, Reminiscences: 1819-1899, Index (search)
dence and Boston, 296, 297; second Phi Beta address, 298; becomes professor of German at Harvard, 299; fondness for the drama, 299, 300; his high opinion of Margaret Fuller, 300, 301; his statement of the Unitarian faith, 302; broadening effect of his studies in Germany, 303. Hegel, the German philosopher, 209; estimates of, 210; his Aesthetik and Logik, 212. Hell, ideas of, 62. Hensler, Miss, Elise, sings first at Mrs. Benzon's house, 435. Herder, works of, read, 59, 206. Herne, Colonel, first husband of Mrs. Cutler, Mrs. Howe's grandmother, 35. Heron, Matilda, in The World's Own, 230. Higginson, Colonel Thomas Went worth, at the Shadrach meeting, 165; his paper Ought Women to learn the Alphabet, 232; his position on Christianity at the Radical Club, 285; at the woman suffrage meeting, 375; aids that cause, 382; at New port, 402; at a mock Commencement, 4003; becomes treasurer of the Town and Country Club, 406; at the woman's rights congress in Paris, 42 Hillar