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AMALIE SIEVEKING. 9
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^ Amalie Wilheimine Sieyekin© Was Born I...
young girl , tliat slie actually carried out this seemingly unpractical idea clothing , and desiring throughout also an to entire learn thereb summer y how secretl to y do washed so , a motive all her which own
gained for , her Madame B . ' s approval , when she at last discovered t "but lie fact did . not By disp the lay wish much of the talent latter for she it also nor busied yet for herself millinery in , cookery though ,
, she did succeed in learning dressmaking . She took dancing lessons tooand on the whole passed her time much like other young ladies
of her , classnever forgetting however to cultivate her moral nature and strive after , an ideal " virtue . " The faults she found in herself
concern at this time ing a contrast youthfu singularl l friend , y ' with M . K her . is future a good life girl , for , but she I writes do not ,
miss her nmch when she is away , and to tell the truth this is the case with most of my acquaintancesand I fear that the cause is that
my sympathy with others is by no , means so lively as it ought to be" And yet more surprising is the confession which appeared in
. her last published book , " The faults of nay temperament were indolence and apathy : when I was a young girl , and even after my
confirmation , I would pass not only whole hours but even sometimes half daysling dreamily upon my bed , not that I was unwell or
, y even tired , but merely because I did not care to do anything . I was certainly ashamed afterwards of wasting my time so disgracefully ,
"but I felt the want of some strong incentive to regular activity , and looked around for some occupation that might satisfy my mind and my
heartand when God directed me to the teaching of the young , I found therein , the best wherewithto overcome my natural
inertness . " Yet even weapon then the desire to , be useful never sluinhered in her heartand she would often take their lodger ' s little daughter , a child
after six yea , a -rs time old the , into governess her own went room away to teach she b her egge knitting d to be -, allowed and when to
give lessons to the second daughter , also . On beginning her task she soon found that she could succeed better with a greater number
of children , and as no one opposed her wish , she selected six out of the families of her friends , and thus in her nineteenth year
commenced hex first little school . The religious part of the instruction was what caused her most difficulty , her faith on some points being
still unsettled , but as the time for her scholars' confirmation approachedshe lained to themwhat were the orthodox doctrines
of the Lutheran , exp church , frankly , adding that she did not herself believe in them but felt too unfixed in her opinions to determine for
others . We must , however , take this opportunity of observing that she afterwards became a firm believer , and remained to the day of
her death an evangelical Christian and member of the _LutHeran _communioix .
The following year was one of great excitement , owing to the continued conflict with the French and the entry of the Russians
into Hamburg , and all the patriotic young ladies were now engaged
in making shirts or knitting socks for the volunteers , Ainalie too
Amalie Sieveking. 9
AMALIE SIEVEKING . 9
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1860, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031860/page/9/
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