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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
·
Lucy Larcom
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By
the
time
I
had
come
down
to
Wordsworth
and
Coleridge
in
my
readings
of
English
poetry,
I
was
enjoying
it
all
so
much
that
I
could
not
any
longer
call
it
study.
A
gift
from
a
friend
of
Griswold's
"Poets
and
Poetry
of
England"
gave
me
my
first
knowledge
of
Tennyson.
It
was
a
great
experience
to
read
"Locksley
Hall"
for
the
first
time
while
it
was
yet
a
new
poem,
and
while
one's
own
young
life
was
stirred
by
the
prophetic
spirit
of
the
age
that
gave
it
birth.
I
had
a
friend
about
my
own
age,
and
between
us
there
was
something
very
much
like
what
is
called
a
"school-girl
friendship,"
a
kind
of
intimacy
supposed
to
be
superficial,
but
often
as
deep
and
permanent
as
it
is
pleasant.
Eliza
and
I
managed
to
see
each
other
every
day;
we
exchanged
confidences,
laughed
and
cried
together,
read,
wrote,
walked,
visited,
and
studied
together.
Her
dress
always
had
an
airy
touch
which
I
admired,
although
I
was
rather
indifferent
as
to
what
I
wore
myself.
But
she
would
endeavor
to
"fix
me
up"
tastefully,
while
I
would
help
her
to
put
her
compositions
for
the
"Offering"
into
proper
style.
She
had
not
begun
to
go
to
school
at
two
years
old,
repeating
the
same
routine
of
study
every
year
of
her
childhood,
as
I
had.
When
a
child,
I
should
have
thought
it
almost
as
much
of
a
disgrace
to
spell
a
word
wrong,
or
make
a
mistake
in
the
multiplication
table,
as
to
break
one
of
the
Ten
Commandments.
I
was
astonished
to
find
that
Eliza
and
other
friends
had
not
been
as
particularly
dealt
with
in
their
early
education.
But
she
knew
her
deficiencies,
and
earned
money
enough
to
leave
her
work
and
attend
a
day-school
part
of
the
year.
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