Reprint of Greenwood Letter, Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express, July 14, 1852

Reprint of Greenwood Letter, Buffalo Morning Express and Illustrated Buffalo Express, July 14, 1852

Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904

Actors and Actresses

National Era

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Social Events--Travels

Gender Norms

This note reprints a part of a Greenwood letter to the National Era. Greenwood recalls her passage to Liverpool, on which she observed Jenny Lind, the Swedish actress.

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Lippincott, Sara Jane (pseudonym: Grace Greenwood), 1832-1904

A.M. Clapp & Co.

1852-07-14

Reference

Grace Greenwood who sailed in the Atlantic for Liverpool, with Madame Jenny Lind Goldschmidt and husband, writes thus of the Swedish Nightingale, in a letter to the "National Era:"
"For the first few days of our voyage, she seemed singularly shy and reserved. I have seen her sit hour after hour by herself, in some unfrquented part of the vessel, looking out over the sea. I often wondered if her thoughts were then buys with the memories of her glorious career--if she were living over her past triumphs, the countless times when the cold quite of the highest heaven of fashion broke into thundersof acclamation above her, and came down in a rain of flowers at her feet. Was it of those perishable wreaths, placed on her brow amid the glare and tumult of the great world, she mused--or of that later crowning of her womanhood, when softly and silently her brow received from God's own hand the chrism of a holy and enduring love? Was it the happy, loving wife, or the great world renowned artiste, who dreamed there alone, looking out over the sea."

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