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Lydia Maria Child, Letters of Lydia Maria Child (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier, Wendell Phillips, Harriet Winslow Sewall), To Miss Lucy Osgood. (search)
abominate them. One of my neighbors told me there was a biographical sketch of me in the Christian Register, copied from the Chicago Tribune. But I did not wish to see it, having a great aversion to newspaper publicity. I care a good deal what my friends think of my performances, but I am singularly indifferent to notices of the press. They are so indiscriminate, and so much done up in a spirit of trade between publishers and editors, that they have little value. I do not see the Westminster review, but I care very little about being respectfully cited in it. The same honor befalls hundreds below the level of mediocrity. I think few things are more inconvenient and disagreeable than being a small lion. One loses the advantage of complete obscurity, without attaining to the advantages of great fame. If what I have written has been the means of doing any good in the world, I am thankful; but as for personal gratification in receiving, as a lion, what you call the homage of s