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136 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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For New York then the sisters sailed on the 13 th of March , 1853 , arriving off Staten Island on the 22 nd of May . The feelings of
Marie as she gazed on the shores of the New World may be best told in her own words .
to I felt " have I somewh took neither my at break head reproved fast nor on heart when deck I see . heard No how one some tranquill seemed one she near to have can me eat any say at : appetite such 4 She a seems ; time and
; y man several as this exceeding ! ' times These tried ly words curious to make were to know the spoken rest wh b y of y I the one was of going the cabin to America believe passengers , and that , who a it young must had - - passengers
heart that be in . women consequence .. coul . A d bell of onl an y sounded unhappy enter . into We love life . were The thr opposit oug poor h the e simp Trinity traged leton y Church ! of He a thoug , broken which ht collection of bricks
ration p had ( houses ile of just with ruin I struck could s which , ) on not ei my I g had ht cal left . l gazed , them On the my romantic ; upon for ri , g seen ht Staten lay shore from an Island of the enormous New shi was p Jersey , gone they . resembled as But I stood the before onl admi y a - ,
feeling this beautiful —a feeling scene of ; activity the appreciation which lan had which of become nature my was ideal mastered . I had b and come y another its here
vile for a agents purpose had —to prevented carry out me the from p doing in a despotic native government city . I had to show
serto those men who had opposed me so strongl my y because I was a woman , that in this land of liberty , equality to , and at fraternity home , I could talents maintain in that unusual position
direction which the . y would I was a not physician permit ; and me , as such , . had M for y years were moved in an the most
hi select hest circles testimonials of Berlin and . these Even were my enemies the onl had treasure been forced that I to broug give ht me to thi the s country g for I had , iven my last dollar to the y sailor who brought me the first
news that , land was g in sight . " The dangersdifficultiesand privations to which these
youngwomen were exposed , , and the , invincible courage , prudence , and industry with which they were met and overcome , nothing being thought
too menial to secure honest independence , are fraught with noble lessons and examples . The helping hand extended to others in the
hour of their own deepest need , vindicates more eloquently than words the wisdom and providence which can alone assign limits to
the _cajoacity of man or woman , the over-ruling power to whose sacred care it may be left that the extremest culture of the mind in
woman will never be at the sacrifice of her heart and sympathies . For a year no opening presented itself towards the achievement
of the hopes which had brought this gallant woman to the shores of the United States , and during this year we find her developing a
worsted and silk fringe business—earning money for herself and her sister , and affording employment to others and far more unfortunate
women . On the morning of the 15 th of May , 1854 , a lady gave
Marie Zakrzewska the addresses of Dr . Blackwell and Miss Catherine Sedgwickand that very day Marie sought Dr . Blackwell . These
two noble , women seem to have understood each other at once , and from that interview dates an earnest friendshipand subsequently
, a communion of labor , to which the foundation , in 1857 , of the New
York Infirmary for Women and Children is indebted .
136 Notices Of Books.
136 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/64/
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