Identifier: memoriesofhostes02howe (find matches)
Title: Memories of a hostess : a chronicle of eminent friendships, drawn chiefly from the diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) DLC Fields, Annie, 1834-1915
Subjects: Fields, Annie, 1834-1915 Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Women -- Massachusetts Boston Diaries Friendship -- Massachusetts Boston Authors, American -- 19th century Biography Actors -- United States Biography Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Boston : Atlantic Monthly Press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ledalmost entirely in the Maine village of her birth, — avillage of dignity and high traditions that were herown inheritance, — there came an extension of in-terests and stimulating contacts through finding her-self a frequent member of another household than herown, and that a very nucleus of quickening humanintercourse. To pursue her work of writing chiefly atSouth Berwick, to come to Boston, or Manchester, forthat freshening of the spirit which the creative writer sogreatly needs, and there to find the most sympatheticand devoted of friends, also much occupied herselfwith the writing of books and with all commerce of vitalthoughts — what could have afforded a more delight-ful arrangement of life ? Even as early as 1881, the year of Fieldss death.Miss Jewett published the fourth of her many books,Country By-Ways, preceded by Deephaven(1877), Play Days (1878), and Old Friends andNew (1879). From 1881 onward her production wasconstant and abundant. In 1881 also began a period of
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SARAH ORNE JEWETT 285 remarkable productiveness on the part of Mrs. Fields.In that very year of her husbands death she publishedboth her James T. Fields: Biographical Notes andPersonal Sketches, and a second edition of Under theOlive, a small volume in which she had brought to-gether in 1880 a number of poems in which the influenceof the Greek and English poets is sometimes manifested— notably in Theocritus — to excellent purpose.If Mrs. Fields had been a poet of distinctive power, thefact would long ago have established itself. To makeany such claim for her at this late day would be to de-part from the purpose of this book. It was for the mostpart rather as a friend than as a daughter of the Musesthat she turned to verse, the medium of utterance for somany of that nest of singing-birds in which her life waspassed. In 1883 came her little volume How to Helpthe Poor, representing an interest in the less fortunatewhich prepared her to become one of the founders of theAssociated Char

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