. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. her poetry—Her novel—OurCasuarina Tree 530 SAXD. Her ancestors—Her grandmather—Childhood of George Sand—Her peculiar education—Convent life—Her religious belief—An accomplished young lady—Marries Dudevant—An ill-starred union—She removes to Paris—Her first writings—Success of Indiana—Other works—Alfred de Musset—Herpolicical principles—Her closing years—Her works. . 546 ILLUSTRA
. Daughters of genius: a series of sketches of authors, artists, reformers, and heroines, queens, princesses, and women of society, women eccentric and peculiar, from the most recent and authentic sources. her poetry—Her novel—OurCasuarina Tree 530 SAXD. Her ancestors—Her grandmather—Childhood of George Sand—Her peculiar education—Convent life—Her religious belief—An accomplished young lady—Marries Dudevant—An ill-starred union—She removes to Paris—Her first writings—Success of Indiana—Other works—Alfred de Musset—Herpolicical principles—Her closing years—Her works. . 546 ILLUSTRATIONS. Josephine (Steel), . Sally Bush, Saturday Night (Steel), .Queen Victoria, .Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe,Miss Louisa M. Alcott,Princess Louise, .Queen Elizabeth (Steel),Adelaide Procter,The Mother of Victor Hugo (StMadame de Stael,Wife of Frederick the Great,Charlotte Cushman,Maria Mitchell, .Adelaide Phillips,Maria Theresa (Steel),Lady Franklin,Joan of Arc (Steel),Harriet Martineau,Betsey Patterson,ToRU Dutt and Sister,George Sand,(10) eel), Frontisprece. PAGH18 23 51 72 79 114 160 212 227 ?26S 281 310 .323 346 398 406 441 482 508 531 547 V 4 J^ ^^ v^fe. SALLY BUSH. SALLY BUSH —ABRAHAM LINCOLNS GOOD STEP-MOTHER. SIXTY-FIYE years ago, on a grassy hillock in themagnificGnt primeval forest of Southern Indiana,a few miles from the Ohio River, stood the small, unhewn,half-finished and most forlorn log-cabin of Thomas Lin-coln. The father of the president was an idle, shiftless,worthless carpenter, who had taken up land in thewilderness, and lived by half cultivating a few acres andshooting the wild turkeys, the deer, and other game withwhich the region teemed. The occupants of the cabinwere himself, his wife, whose maiden name was NancyHanks, and two cliildren, Nancy, eleven years of age, andAbraham, the future president, nine. I suppose there never was a more beautiful countrythan this part of Indiana, as it was before the settlersdisfigur
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