Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...that time, possessed ten children. His second wife bore him six, and, in view of this accumulated progeny, it has been supposed that "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe" grew out of its author's experience. Such dim hints form our chief knowledge of the life of Mother Goose, as, indeed, often happens in the case of writers who are absorbed in their work...
...Mother and Poet Mrs. Browning...
...matinee will be the last performance of the Ideal Opera Company in "The Prince of Palermo." The music of this piece is charming, the plot is very amusing, and both singing and acting are capital. On Monday, Daly's adaptation, "An Arabian Night, or Haroun Al Raschid and his Mother-in-Law," will be given for the first time in Boston...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinees Wednesday and Saturday at 2. "Mother and Daughter," an adaptation of the usual type of French melodrama, will be given to-night and to-morrow. The plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...
...omit or neglect, in great degree, the study of English composition and grammar; while the lack of time for gaining even an elementary knowledge of our own literature brings about a most deplorable result, - young men enter college skilled in mathematics and classics, but positively ignorant of their mother tongue...