https://www.archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/7ca25811e5743aaeb28c324e611cc85a.pdf f397a0f5dcc892b374ae7fe07d714fef Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Gossip Columns and Columnists Description An account of the resource The collection stores items related to the question of how gossip was talked about, referenced, and used in nineteenth-century periodicals. It showcases letters, diaries, articles, auto/biographical accounts of relevant journalists as well as exemplary gossip columns and articles. Visit the <a href="https://www.archivalgossip.com/sources/archives/">list</a> of archives from which the archival sources were derived. <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/4a92a43e5ed873676c0588fd6cc4326f.JPG"><img title="Item Locations" alt="Item Locations" src="https://archivalgossip.com/collection/files/original/4a92a43e5ed873676c0588fd6cc4326f.JPG" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="469" height="324.5" /></a>(<a href="http://hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/">Palladio</a> visualization, location of items in collection, size nodes)</div> Diary (Entry) A resource consisting primarily of written thoughts about private issues. Text Any textual data included in the document [page 1] I cannot bring myself down to hard work But pazienza. This +++  state of mind must pass. War is fast coming on Russia will fight Turkey as soon as she is ready notwithstanding all her hypocritical declarations to the contrary. Then our own country is in a bad way, the election is giving great trouble so it is a dark look out on all sides. It will be a hard winter in Rome especially for American astists, for there are no forestieri coming. The last quarter of the century is beginnnng gloomily enough. But after all [inserted] this black clouding it [inserted] may clear off and give us lighter weather. [page 2] XMas Eve: /76 How doleful we solitary old women feel on these anniversa ries! And no others can supply the places of the lost and gone. All we can do is to fold our hands patiently and look about us for objects of interest. Poor Lottie may be dead now I had a letter from her a fortnight since a strange incoherent one it was like the talk we hear in our dreams. Ms W. also wrote and explained to me her sorrowful state <ol start="29"> <li> Dec /76 </li> </ol> Still if we are doleful, we old spinsters on anniversaries we are not very miserable after all for (if all are as I am) we have many compensations. Our tranquil lives are so delightful I glow very year more jealous [page 3] of my solitude. I love to be alone and it is always a slight bore to have even the most a-greeable friend come in on one This is very selfish and so convinced am I of its unhealthiness that I do not allow my self to be denied to any visitor this season. No matter how busy I may be I receive, for I am really more in love with my solitary life than I ever was before—too much so—and I see the need to correct it. To day my maid is ill and at her home. Her sister comes in to "spieciare" and cook my dinner, the rest of the day I am alone. The house is as still as a mouse nest These four long +++ are full of sun and brightness. I ought to be writing a letter to the E. Bul. [Evening Bulletin] but I walk [page 4] up and down the long +++ of Rome[?], 130 +++ long and enjoy the stillness and sweet surround ings to the very marrow of my bones I am so extremety comfortable my apt: is perfect according to my own wishes, and my life is ordered according to my tastes & desires. Money enough to keep me from want, work enough to keep me from weariness and sufficient detachment from the world to keep me from worriment The sun is very brilliant, the air is delicious and I am only indolent. I love to think & muse and idle. But I must go to work or my fascinating life will have some little spot of vexation—it will pall on me from too much sweetness Location The location of the interview Rome, Italy Geocode (Latitude) 41.8933203 Geocode (Longitude) 12.4829321 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Anne Brewster about Spinsterhood and Privacy, Diary Entry Excerpts (1876) Description An account of the resource Brewster describes herself as a solitary old woman and spinster, "in love with my solitary life." By stating that "[i]t will be a hard winter in Rome especially for American astists, for there are no forestieri coming," Brewster assesses the economic situation of the US American artist community in Rome. Pier Paolo Racioppi (2018) argues that the artists relied on US American visitors and expatriates to make a living in Rome. The latters' absence thus meant a lack of income. <h3>Credit</h3> <a href="http://www.librarycompany.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Library Company of Philadelphia</a> Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived ABP 4 5, diary 1876 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1876-12-24/1876-12-29 Type The nature or genre of the resource Reference Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 0797 Subject The topic of the resource Brewster, Anne Hampton, 1818-1892 Gender Norms Finances Artists Italy--Rome Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Brewster, Anne Hampton, 1818-1892 gender norms/bending illness/death Rome