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    < HABKIOT ' K> HtTHT. 885

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    America I Have Been With Deep The Ly Lov...

    " Without the influence of my mother ' s tempered and religious nature profession would have had dangers for me , it was so

    my startling " , so intensely interesting- and successful . In ten years after father ' s decease our homestead was unfettered and free , and our

    professional my lives respectable to many . Our struggles never seemed hard to us , our labor was so intimately blended -with enjoyment ;

    and the struggles made life even more absorbing-. By our own step efforts was we to had continue cancelled frugal the mortgage and painstaking on our , homestead that we mi . ght Our again next

    live in our own house ; for our mother so enjoyed our own home that the -word ' tenant' grated on her ear as it did on ours . "

    In 1830 _George Combe went to Boston and commenced a course of lectures . His clear and vivid theories upon the body and the brain

    gave the greatest delight to the two sisters . " My experience confirmed all his teaching's ; I can never forget them , they stirred the

    vital palpitating depths within me . I needed a more earnest consciousness of lawsI needed to realise that they govern every

    de-.. , partment of life , and these lectures supplied my need . * * * After-life proved to me more and more the value of these lectures .

    His clear exposition of the temperaments and of idiosyncracies , the conviction he forced upon nie of the necessity of understanding the

    quality as well as the quantity of thought , gave me a key which _, has been constantland successfully used in my practice , and has

    y been of infinite service to me in the treatment of many obscure cases . " "We have thus followed Harriot Hunt from her childhood upwards

    to the mature and successful exercise of her professional life ; a life '¦ which , still continues in its useful course . In 1840 , her sister

    married the son of an old family friend , and Harriot was left to pursue her work alone ; though , says the loving sister , " she was still near

    at hand ; I could still consult with her ; her interest was kept alive- in looking after and prescribing for the poor and afflicted ; but he—her

    'husband—a son to my mother , a brother to me , his relation has been so "beautifully sustained that my Joss has been gain . " In 1847 , the

    mother who had so carefully trained and warmly sympathised with tell her of dau thi ghters s loss was . The taken latter away half ; very of the beautiful volume are is full the of page interesting s which

    details on the public movements of New England , on anti- slavery , the temperance cause , and the meetings held in reference to the

    education and industrial position of women . We will conclude with an extract from Fredrika Bremer ' s " Homes

    of the New World" in which she describes her visit to Miss Hunt , in a letter dated January 1 st 1850 . The Swedish authoress says of

    , her hostess , " It is impossible to have a better heart ; one more warm for the best interests of mankind , and , upon the whole , more

    practical sagacity . * A' * * She has now been in practice twelve as a hysician of women and' childrenacquiring the public

    .. years confidence , p and laying up property , ( as for instance , , the house in is her

    which she lives , a frugally . furnished but excellent house ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1860, page 385, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021860/page/25/