Author : James Parton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333233761
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (337 download)
Book Synopsis Daughters of Genius, Or World's Famous Women by : James Parton
Download or read book Daughters of Genius, Or World's Famous Women written by James Parton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Daughters of Genius, or World's Famous Women: A Series of Sketches of Women Who Have Won Distinction by Their Genius and Achievements of Authors, Artists, Actors, Rulers, or Within the Precents of Home The praise she most enjoyed, however, was that of her friends; and the most preclous tribute to her powers was not that of the critics. She always looked back with peculiar pride to one evening at an entertainment in a fashionable house in New York, when she sang Kathleen Mavourneen to a large company. While she was singing a young Irish serving maid entered the room with a tray in her hand, and was so overcome with emotion, that for getting her duties and her deportment alike, she sank down in a chair and burst into tears. At another time, at a hotel in the mountains, where Miss Phillips had refused to sing in public, having gone there in search of rest, 3she was found seated in the kitchen surrounded by guides and servants, all crying heartily at her pathetic singing of Auld Robin Gray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.