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AMALIE SIEVEKING. 19
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
can offer I liave "willingly given up , but social intercourse with , those I loveand some friendlassociation and interchange of thought
with a certain peop , consideration le who , if we for do y not me exactl is to y me agree an absolute in every necessity thing , yet , and have I
will never willingly resign it . ?> , Nor did either she or _lier cause lose best anything recommendation "b y this determination of her iety , for and her many social who amiability would otherwi was the se
have been repelled hy the serious p , earnestness of her character , forher tliis when they found that it did not prevent her
sympagave to thising herand with there their was pleasures but one . inion The doctors them were as all to now the usefulness won over opamong
of the , associationand similar organisations began to be formed in , neighbouring cities , which established fresh claims on her time inator , as
those concerned were naturally anxious to consult with the orig of the first . A clergyman in Bremen pressed for a personal visit , and as it was possible to reach there by travelling at night , so that
further a no meeting great agreed expenditure of them , at the , and earnest of give time some wish was account of involved a few of the , ladies she rise , consented to and come three history before , hun and of
dred the Hamburg assembled Association , and the meeting . To her had astonishment to adjourn to , nearl larger y premises - , where Miss Sieveking delivered a long and interesting discourse with
uninterrupted fluency . At its close , she "was asked for her manuscript , with permission to print itwhento the great surprise of her hearers , it
, , which proved were that noted all the down manuscri the pt chief she heads had was of the a small discourse scrap . of The paper effect , on
of this lecture was most gratifying : one lady brought her her ornamentsbegging her to dispose of them in Hamburg for the benefit
of the , association therewhile all the members of the one which had been commenced , at Bremen , but hitherto been carried on .
henceforth in a very languid went on sp with irit , declared their work that in they trusting felt as cheerfulness if electrified . , and All
this was of course so much the more pleasure for Miss Sieveking . " In got a certai into n sense / ' said element she , " I I was always never feel young so strong , and now and that fresh I , have that
my proper it almost seems to me as though I should never grow old . I rememberon the last Christmas-day at my father ' s house being
quite vexed , because I could not feel so much pleasure in my presents as in former arsbut nowthough my joy may not be quite so
loud , it is quite ye as ; great as that , of any little child over its Christmas tree . Oh ! it is indeed a blessing when one ' s daily work is a
dail She y joy was . " oftenasked whether the siht of so much wretchedness g
as she came in contact , with did not affect her painfully ; but she would lthat her stronhysical constitution prevented her
the being firmness impressed repy , and lib by eralit it as y a of nervous g her p faith person precluded might its haye having been , any while ill
effect upon her spiritually . She could weep with those who wept , b 2 vox . v .
Amalie Sieveking. 19
AMALIE SIEVEKING . 19
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 19, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/19/
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