Identifier: womenofdistincti00scru (find matches)
Title: Women of distinction : remarkable in works and invincible in character
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Scruggs, L. A. (Lawson Andrew), 1857-1914
Subjects: North Caroliniana African American women African Americans Women
Publisher: Raleigh : L. A. Scruggs
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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ideas and thought she is original, intreatment and application much so, and in order to pre-sent in their most invulnerable guise the children of herpens creation she does not hesitate to waive those lit-erary rules that intellectual inconsequentials shudder toviolate and mediocrity pays abject court to. Being amost womanly woman, she is, however, the possessor ofa dual intellectual composition, in that she reflects thegrasp of the best masculine minds on the one hand, andall the sympathy of touch and deftness of treatment ofgentle woman on the other. A remarkable growing-woman, an honor to her race and her sex, and in consid-eration of her superior attributes of nature, Pollockslines suggest themselves to our minds, which we quotewith slight transposition: With natures self, She seems an old acquaiutance,Free to jest at will, With all her glorious majesty, •yt Tr -X- -Jf -Jf -<f -/S- ^ Then turns, and with the grasshopper. That sings its evening song,Beneath her feet converses.
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MRS. DELLA IRVING HAYDEN. WOMEN OF DISTINCTION. 241 CHAPTER LIX. MRS. DEIvIvA IRVING HAYDEN. At the close of the Civil War we find the subject ofour sketch in the town of Tarboro, N. C., without amothers care, her mother having in the early days ofthe war moved to the Old Dominion. In her incipiency she knew the care of none but agrandmother, to whom she was devoted with all of thedevotion a child could bestow. Though separated foryears by landscape, there continued in the mothersbreast that love and devotion that are peculiar to her sex;hence she returned in search of her lost child in 1865,finding her in vigorous health. She, as the shepherddoth the lost sheep, took her child upon her breast andover rocky steeps and swollen streams wound her wayback to Virginia. As the infant grew she proved to be of a brilliantmind, and even when but a child exhibited great tact inthe management of little folks around her. There beingno free schools in operation at that day for colored chil-dren, s

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