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Title

Waking stone : inventions on the life of Harriet Hosmer / by Carole Simmons Oles.

Author

Oles, Carole.

Publication

Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

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Details

Description

xi, 96 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 > Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 93-96).

Contents

Invocation to Hatty -- Mother at her easel : a memory -- I misbehave : self-defenses -- I find my place : Mrs. Sedgwick's school -- I am lowered, I am raised -- The body forbidden -- That other river : the Mississippi -- More wildlife study -- Linkage -- From backyard studio, to Rome, 1852 -- Enroute to Rome, October, 1852 -- Finding my master -- My first child, and another daughter -- My first full-figure daughter -- On marriage, how many times must I tell you -- Preparing for dinner guests, mindful of Hatty -- Making money -- Rumor -- Astronomer Maria Mitchell meets Harriet Hosmer -- To Hatty on Easter Sunday, among spirits -- Beginning and ending with Mahler's Kindertotenlieder -- Her story, my daughter Beatrice -- Beatrice dreams -- Hatty's anxiety dream -- Tomb of Judith Falconnet -- Today, Sant'Andrea Delle Fratte -- Purification -- To Hatty, on boils -- My clothes -- Hatty revises current fashion -- Zenobia speaks, in chains and free -- The critics comment on Zenobia -- I fight the battle of the amazons -- Thomas Hart Benton, in bronze -- Astoria, New York interlude : Italian notebook -- I tell Hatty the effacing dream -- Stonecarver, restoring -- Flesh and stone -- Thinking, making ready -- Hatty to posterity : on friendship, flirtation, and the fury to wed -- Permanent magnets -- My Rome, vanishing -- Crossing zones -- Parallel universes -- I rededicate Watertown's Hosmer School to you, Hatty -- Hatty's dream, 1902 -- I didn't want to admit it -- Brief letter from Hatty, and author's response -- The tenth muse -- February 21, then and now.

ISBN

1557288259 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2006011828
• 9781557288257

OCLC

• OCM66393048
• SCSB-5285304

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries