Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-01-25
SOME AMERICAN YOUNG WOMEN

SOhE AMERlCAN 1OtNG WOnE n.
Perhaps there is no race. since the old
Hellenic race fell into dust, that can boast
so brilliant an array of what IL called
feminine talent rs oar own. In most
others the etfots of women receive such
small encuurag ement as TO make dislln
guished names among them exceptional
things; so TINT we hear Of none but vO-
calIsIs in Italy. none at all in Russia
none in Denmark. few in SWedcn, Seno
ria Perry in Spain. Madame Sand. Rosa
Bnhhuer. Madame Girafdin. and but one
,r two others in France. while in England
aud la America we have swarm.
Not Ia ennmerate the dead, nor those
whose talent is Of doubtful desIrabiluy,
We have. in England. Mrs. Lewes
George ElIioD. Mrs. Craik, Miss Inge
low, Miss Cobbe-a woman whose mag
nficrni mind searches among vast infini
tudes with telescope power. aud among
the beginnings of thoughts and things
with microscopic mInnteness-anda al
ded 10 these a myriad of lesser lights.
tiiCu ~ Tic Ia lWdIusES, htiltsO 1HOiiIhS,
NJ s. Thackrray. and actresses. musicians,
rdiiresses. painters. and scu!ptresses by
The score; while in America our array
is scarcely inferiof-comprising such
names in literature rs those Of Mrs.
Stowe. Ms. Child. Giace Greenwood.
Anne Crane. Helen Hunt, Ms Calhoun
Mrs Howe, the Cnrys, the Warmers; in
the drama, as those of Mrs. Bowers
Matilda Heron, Charlotte CuShman: az
Anne Brewster, in musical criticism As
Emily Andrews. said to be unsurpassed
in flower pm nting by any water colorist
in III, world; as Flora Freeman, Miss
Lsnder. Miss Slebbins, Edmonia Lewis,
Margaret Foley, in sculpture, and 9th
ers. To name whom would make merely
p hewildering category.
There is something very suggestive
in this. with the fact that in the precel
ING generations there were no such mum
bers and that his sudden enrolment Of
names is due to the loosenng Of those
shackles with which women have been
fetiered since time began, the opening Of
new avenues. the whitening of slavish in
stincls And if so many have already
arisen with their lamps trimmed and
burning. one is led tn ask what may be
expected in the fuure. and to look at
The new generation with rsloublcd in.
rest and foremost among its members
We find some half score of young wo
men. of whom we propose to give the
reader slight sketch.
ANNA DICKINSON.
Miss Dickinson has been heard too
generally in the country to make an
analysis of her powers necessary, for
nearly every Quo has already felt AMI
acknowledged them. She began her
career as a speaker in her sixteenth year,
al one OF The outdoor Friends meetings
in the nelghbcrhnod that Bayard Tia, Tor
has Described as Kenneth Square. and
the effect of her words was 50 marked
| and vivid that she has never again been
| suffered TO be silent. Her father was q
literary man. teacher AMI public speaks
er, earnestly enlisted in the anti slavery
contest, and between him and the poet
Whittier warm friendship existed unit
interrupted by his early death Prot.
ably his daughter inherils many of his
qualities, enriched by poetic warmth
of nature from her mother. native o.
the Eastern shore OF Maryland. An or
ator who followed Mss Dickinson on
her course through the states Of New
Hampshire aud Connecticut at tue open
ing of tn" war and WI EN- her genius frs
began to fad expression. describes The
scenes he met rs something too wonder
ful for belief; every place tie entered wa;
aflame with enthusiasm over her and til,
cause she advocated TO them ;men wouner
and children we're in an eciacy of excite
menl; they called her new Jeann,
dare. messenger from heaven, py
lhnness; they crowded round her as mel
never crow ded round womau before, no
even when they crowned Corinna at tn
Capitol. She had conquering marc
from one end Of the states to the other
she had the last two nights Of the cam
paign given her in their capital cities
and she undoubtedly saved the state
1.-The Republican party at time wLe
81 their loss would have been vital, An
when the opposition in the struggle Wa
made by the most able orators and state
men Of the Democrats. 1t is a gres
experience to hear one Of Anna DickiI
sons i csures in some metropolis, whel