- Two girls walking in the country
Two girls walking in the country - Alice Freeman Palmer
The Girl Who Guided College Girls When she grew up, Alice Freeman could still forget herself and enter into the moods of others. She seemed to know exactly how the other person felt. That was one of the reasons why, when she became the president of Wellesley College, she was able to help the students make the very best of their lives. - Cecilia Beaux
Whose Paint Brush Has Brought Her Fame Cecilia’s gray eyes grew thoughtful as she considered the drawing that she was copying. She held it at arm’s length, scrutinizing it critically. “Ah, this is much more fun than practicing scales,” she reflected. When the family examined these drawings, they said, “Cecilia would never be a success at music, but she draws very well.” This little girl was Cecilia Beaux, whose portraits have won many medals. She was born in Philadelphia in 1863. Her father came from Provence, France, where the people have ever been famed for their enjoyment of beauty. Her mother was of New England descent and had inherited from her ancestors the ability to do things and to do them conscientiously and well. From each parent the little girl received a golden gift: from her father, his joy in the beautiful; from her mother, the love of doing things. Her good use of these two gifts has made Cecilia Beaux a famous artist. - Boy and Girl looking out the window
Boy and Girl looking out the window - American Queen
Another picture that rises simultaneously before the eyes of the masses as representing those queens in America, to whom more ready homage is paid than was ever accorded to a coronet or crown, is our Frances Cleveland. Ours, because the “Common People” claim her, as only an ordinary, sweet, lovely, modest American woman. - March
March - Mother breaking up fight among her four children
Mother breaking up fight among her four children - Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
At the age of four Amy was finally allowed to play on the piano. Often when her aunt was seated at the instrument, little Amy would stand on a hassock and play with her, making up an accompaniment as she went along. Just as other little girls plan how to arrange their playhouses or how to make new dresses for their dolls, this little girl used to think out tunes. Once, when she was visiting at a house where there was no piano, she composed a little piece of music. She remembered it and three months later was able to play it correctly on the piano at home. She had composed three other little pieces before she was seven years old. - Girl sleeping
Girl sleeping - Italian Child
Among the dark whites of Europe the Portuguese, Spanish, Italians, and Greeks are conspicuous. In speech they are kin to each other, and to the fair whites. How different they are otherwise! They are handsomer in face, more lithe and graceful in body, more quickly aroused, more changeable in purpose, than the fair whites. Their faces, their gestures, their movements, more emphatically betray their emotions. They live more in the present than the somewhat sober and sombre northern peoples. - A Luxor Dancing-girl
- Harriet Goodhue Hosmer
Harriet went to school in Watertown, and later attended a private school at Lenox, Massachusetts. After three years at Lenox, Harriet returned home. She then began to study drawing and modeling in Boston. Often she walked both to and from her lessons, a distance of fourteen miles. By this time, Harriet Hosmer realized that nothing made her happier than to turn formless bits of clay into beautiful objects. She felt that she would like to go still further in her work; she wanted to see some of her ideas take shape in marble. - A Little Girl of Hainburg
A Little Girl of Hainburg - Maria Mitchell
The Girl Who Studied the Stars It was an eventful day in the Mitchell home. The parlor window had been taken out and the telescope mounted in front of it. Twelve-year-old Maria, at her father’s side, counted the seconds while he observed a total eclipse of the sun. Not every twelve-year-old girl could be trusted to use the chronometer, an instrument which measures the time even more accurately than a watch. Maria, however, had been helping her father in his study of the stars ever since she could count. Before many years this little girl beside the telescope became America’s best-known woman astronomer. - October
Kids under a tree - At School
Girls sitting on a bench at school reading - Look at the snowman
Girl showing her little sister that the snowman doesn't bite - Rose-Red's mamma gathered her up in her arms and comforted her
Mother and child embrace - Sad girl holding a bird
Sad girl holding a bird - Girl feeding birds
Girl feeding birds - Little girl at the beach with many other children
Little girl standing in a puddle at the beach while lots of other children play in the background - Mother cuddling her little girl
Mother sitting in chair cuddling her little girl - Wild Birds
Girl Feeding some wild birds - Little girl sitting and reading in the garden
Little girl sitting and reading in the garden - Seven little children
Three boys and four girls - You are it
Seven little children are all pointing at one little girl - Two girls sewing
Two girls sewing - Girl studying contents of bathroom cupboard
Girl studying contents of bathroom cupboard - The Twins
Boy and Girl looking out at the night - Five children at the beach
Three girls, a boy and a baby at the beach - A Dancing-Girl
- Girl with a cake
Girl with a cake - April
April - Ella Flagg Young
Boy hoeing between the cabbages as a girls reads a book - January
January - September
September - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Reading
Young girl reading - Eight children
Eight children - May
May - July
- November
November - December
December - February
February - Two Girls
One girl sitting on a chair holding a fan with another girl walking by - June
June - August
August - Girl reading a story to her doll
Girl reading a story to her doll - Little girl on a swing
Little girl swinging on a swing attached to a tree - Sparrow Tree Square
Children playing - Jean slipped her hand into the cage and drew out Goldie
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- How Tessa's little brown legs did flash back and forth
- Two Girls unwinding wool
Two Girls unwinding wool - Little girls looking with a lamb
- Children making a snowman
- Bot and girl on a snow sled
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Little girl looking in the mirror
Little girl looking in a full length mirror - Girl playing a flutelike instrument while running through some leaves