Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships
Nineteenth-Century Boston Salons, Literary Friendships, and Transatlantic CultureBy Annie Fields, M. A. De Wolfe Howe
Length8h 13m
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Memories of a Hostess: A Chronicle of Eminent Friendships gathers intimate literary recollection, social history, and biographical portraiture into a vivid record of nineteenth-century American cultural life. Moving between anecdote, character sketch, correspondence-inflected remembrance, and reflective memoir, the volume reveals the drawing room as a consequential site of artistic exchange. Its portraits of figures associated with New England letters—including poets, essayists, reform-minded intellectuals, and publishers—make private sociability legible as part of public literary history. Annie Fields brings to these memories the distinctive perspective of a central participant in Boston's literary circles, while M. A. De Wolfe Howe's editorial stewardship frames them for later readers. Together, their work preserves a network shaped by the afterlife of Transcendentalism, the prestige of the New England Renaissance, and the expanding professional culture of American authorship. The collection's varied voices and recollections illuminate friendship, patronage, bereavement, hospitality, and literary reputation as interdependent cultural forces. This volume will reward readers of American literature, biography, and cultural history alike. It offers an unusually rich opportunity to encounter celebrated writers not as distant monuments but as members of a living community, while inviting reflection on how memory itself constructs literary inheritance.
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GenreBiography and Memoir, Literary Classics
Length8 hrs 13 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 9, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Life and Adventures of Nat Love (Annotated)
2ILLUSTRATIONS
3I PRELIMINARY
4II THE HOUSE AND THE HOSTESS
5III DR. HOLMES, THE FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR[3]
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6IV CONCORD AND CAMBRIDGE VISITORS
7V WITH DICKENS IN AMERICA[22]
8VI STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS (pt. 1)
9VI STAGE FOLK AND OTHERS (pt. 2)
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