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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oles, Carole, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908--Poetry.

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue.

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, -- 1830-1908--Poetry.

Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, -- 1830-1908 -- Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (96 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fayetteville, [Arkansas] : The University of Arkansas Press, 2006.

Summary:

From Carole Simmons Oles comes a new modern poetry biography, this one based on the life of American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908).After an exceptional apprenticeship in Rome, Hosmer opened a studio there where she was associated with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, and the Brownings.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword

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

Afterword

Notes.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61075-447-6

OCLC:

1021762718