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298 HARRIET HOSMER.
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rather tenance than give that one at of the a young first g woman lance the . impression It is the of first a handsome glance onl boy y ,
howeverwhich misleads one . The trim waist and well-developed , bust belong unmistakably to a woman , and the deep , earnest eyes ,
firm-set mouth , and modest dignity of deportment , shew that woman to be one of no ordinary character and ability . with the
Thus , reader , we have at last brought you face to face whose subject Beatrice of this memoir Cenci you , Harriet will remember Hosmer , the at the American Royal scul Academy ptress ,
last Born year at . Watertownin the State of Massachusetts , in the year
1831 Harriet Hosmer , is the only surviving daughter of a physician , who having lost wife and child by consumptionand fearing
a like , fate for the survivor , gave her horse , dog , gun and , boat , and insisted an out-doors' life as indispensable to health . A
fearless horsewoman upon , a good shot , an adept in rowing , swimming , diving and skating , Harriet Hosmer is a signal instance of what
j taint udicious of constitution physical training . Willing will ly effect as the in active conquering , energetic even child hereditary
acquiesced in her father's wishes , she contrived , at the same time , to gratify and develop her own peculiar tastes ; and many himself a time that and his
certain darling oft , when clay was the -p in it , worth not active y very do exercise ctor far from may , she have the mi paternal ght flattered have residence been found , making in a
any early objects attempts , in at short modelling , which horses attracted , dogs , her sheep she attention made , men and . Then women of too her , — ,
both here , and subsequently at Lenox , good use time by for stud herself ying of natural the wild history creatures , and of of her the gun woods by securin feathered g sp and ecimens
, furred , dissecting some , and with her own hands preparing and stuffing others . The walls of the room devoted to her special use
in " the old house at home " , are covered with birds , bats , - butterflies and beetlessnakes and toadswhile sundry bottles of spirits
contain subjects , carefully dissected , and prepared by herself . Ingenuity and taste too are shewn in the use to which the young
p evincing g ilfered irl app . lied mechanical One the inkstand eggs genius and , in feathers and particular artistic of the , a taste nests very . and Taking earl birds y production the she head had , ,
throat , wings and side feathers of a blue-bird , and having blown a hen's she set it on endforming the breast of the bird , as it
were , by egg the , oval surface of the , egg , while , through the open beak and extended neck , entrance was gained to the cavity of the egg
containing the ink . In fact , no one can . look round this apartment , occupied by the
child and young girl , without at once recognising the force and individuality of character which have since distinguished her . So
true Full is it of that fun and the child frolic numerous father of the anecdo man tes are told of tical
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298 Harriet Hosmer.
298 HARRIET HOSMER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 298, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/10/
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