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300 HARRIET HOSMEIL
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impetus guiding encouragement and to that directing supp activity lied into of by leg mind Mrs itimate . Kemble and channels bod , y had which . g She iven neede returned the d ri onl ght to y
her father ' s house , at Watertown , to pursue her art-studies , and to fit herself for the career she had resolved upon following . There
was at this time a cousin of Miss Hosiner's studying with her - fatherbetween whom and herself existed a hearty camaraderie *
Together , the two spent many hours in dissecting legs and arms , and erected in making a small acquaintanc _^ lilding e with at the the bottom human of frame his , garden Dr . Hosmer to facilitate having *
these studies . Those were days of close study and application . Lessons in drawing and modelling—for which our young student
, had anatomical to repair studies to Boston with her , a distance cousin of alternated seven or with eight the miles inevitable , —and
. ride Charles Harriet s and Hosmer runs boating immediatel had , on a which boat y before -house her father , the containing house wisely , insi a and safe sted on . broad this The boat river river ,
deli and ht a frag of her ile poetical heart and -looking the terror gondola , of , her with less silvered experienced , prow , and the
unswimming g friends . The life of the young girl was at this period full of earnest purpose and noble ambition , and the untiring energy in remarkable
and perseverance which distinguish her now so hand mo a degree delled on a one were portrait or at two bust this cop , time and ies from with then evidenced the cut her Canova anti and que hands ' , developed s she bust that next of . she Nap tried Having mi oleon her ht
make in marble herself , working mistress it of entirel the y process . Her own father , seeing her g devoted to her studiesseconded them in every possible wayand
pr Anatomy oposed to to send the St her Louis , to his College friend that , Dr . she McDowell might , go Professor throug , h of a
course of regular instruction . , and , be thus thoroughly grounded for the branch of art she had chosen . The young artist was but too 1850 find
her glad at to close St . Louis with , the residing offer , ; in and the , in famil the y autumn of her of favorit , e we schoolhearts of all its members bher
head frank mate , of from joyous itwhat Lenox nature she , winning heartil and stead y the and y app energeticall lication , y and calls securing _" the best -, in friend y the
, I ever had . " her Her entering independence the college of manner as a student and character could not , joined fail to to bring the fact down of
, animadversion , and many were the tales fabricated and circulated anent the New Englanderwho was said to carry pistols in
her beltand young to be prepared to take , the life of any one who interfered with , herIt was perhaps no disadvantage , under the
cir-. cumstances , from to be the protected inhabited by such art a character of the . town The and college in stood earl p y
morning some way and late evening , going to and fro with the , other students , with which
it is not impossible that she owed the perfect impunity
300 Harriet Hosmeil
300 HARRIET HOSMEIL
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 300, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/12/
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