"A
Harem (Scarem) of emancipated females"
Born in Watertown, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was raised
by a permissive father who gave her "horse, dog, gun,
and boat," and encouraged her to lead an active life out-of-doors.
She quickly developed into an "incorrigible tomboy."
She arrived in Rome in 1852 and lived for a time in Charlotte
Cushman's household. William Wetmore Story, writing to his
Boston friend James Russell Lowell, observed that Cushman,
Hosmer, Matilda Hays, and writer Grace Greenwood formed "a
Harem (Scarem) of emancipated females." |
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Harriet
Hosmer in her Rome studio, at work on a statue
of
Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton (1865).
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