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Mary Alice Seymour

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The Story of a Poet: Madison Cawein: His Intimate Life as Revealed by His Letters and Other Hitherto Unpublished Material, Including Reminiscences by His Closest Associates; Also Articles from Newspapers and Magazines and a List of His
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and other European centers. Seymour played the piano, harp, guitar and organ, but never appeared on the stage, except for charitable events, as her relatives were opposed to her pursuing a professional life. A "confirmed
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After the death of her father, she received a sizeable inheritance, and returned to her home in the U.S. After losing her fortune, she moved into a small apartment on
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In the summer of 1888, she married secondly Abraham G. Fonda, a descendant of the New York Fonda family, whose ancestor, Major Jelles Fonda, had purchased the
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A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life
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who spoke seven languages fluently: German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Hungarian dialects. She died in 1897.
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Fonda had a pleasant childhood. Her parents were surrounded by literary people, and her early taste tended toward literature. In
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In 1868–70, in Vermont, notices appeared in the press regarding Seymour's dramatic readings and recitations as an
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where she gave piano lessons and developed a platonic relationship with Gottschalk. She also taught music in
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emulating those other women held in France. At the salon, she was referred to as Madam Octavia Hensel.
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Lady Alice Seymour (1881-08-11). "Sketches in Lower Austria - II Therasburg castle Continued".
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Seymour's parents were Mary Phelps (Olmstead) Ives and George Russell Ives. He was a
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After the death of her grandmother, in 1885, she opened a school of vocal music in
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and his feeble health led her to go to Europe for study to become a vocal teacher.
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Lady Alice Seymour (1881-07-28). "Sketches in Lower Austria - Seefeld castle".
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Widowed, Seymour returned to her father's home from where she published
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The Rheingold trilogy; a guide through the trilogy of Richard Wagner
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Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893).
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Episcopal Church. Diocese of New York. Convention (1874).
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The Ruthvens of Cedar Grove; or, The Whitsuntide holidays
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and from the Phelps and Gorham estate, where the town of
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Episcopal Church. Diocese of New York. Convention 1874
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She died at her home, "Fonda Vera", in Louisville, of
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purchased in the interior of New York State from the
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Frederick (2000). 921:"Honors to an American Girl" 719:Willard & Livermore 1893 629:Willard & Livermore 1893 261:Mary Alice Ives was born in 1011:"The Late "Octavia Hensel"" 812:– via Newspapers.com. 779:– via Newspapers.com. 746:– via Newspapers.com. 738:. 26 August 1868. p. 5 665:– via Newspapers.com. 339:at one time connected with 1263: 657:. 10 June 1897. p. 12 521:Whitsuntide at Cedar Grove 487:American Revolutionary War 299:Phelps and Gorham Purchase 802:The Burlington Free Press 769:The Burlington Free Press 202:; after second marriage, 43: 1242:Kentucky women musicians 1009:Musical Courier (1897). 885:"Personal and Political" 804:. 19 May 1870. p. 3 798:"Mrs. Seymour's Reading" 341:Trinity Parish, New York 257:Early life and education 198:; after first marriage, 111:musician, author, critic 1207:Musicians from Brooklyn 1110:Louis Moreau Gottschalk 889:Buffalo Courier Express 403:San Francisco Chronicle 325:Louis Moreau Gottschalk 1222:American music critics 1212:American salon-holders 249:", Seymour was also a 52:A Woman of the Century 1232:Writers from Brooklyn 316:commission merchant. 271:Newton, Massachusetts 907:The Cleveland Leader 502:Musical Courier 1897 485:and owned many rare 449:Louisville, Kentucky 445:Nashville, Tennessee 323:, she studied under 145:William Wood Seymour 85:Louisville, Kentucky 925:The Evening Gazette 909:: 3. 2 August 1879. 891:: 2. 4 August 1879. 386:Archduke of Austria 337:Episcopal clergyman 279:battle of Lexington 955:www.findagrave.com 732:"Our Own Vicinity" 655:The Pittsfield Sun 513:Cedar Grove series 498:Cave Hill Cemetery 359:American Civil War 186:Mary Alice Seymour 38:Mary Alice Seymour 1139:Works related to 1120:978-0-252-06876-8 1046:978-0-8369-5640-5 573:Music in Kentucky 400:of New York, the 378:Arthur Rubinstein 182: 181: 16:(Redirected from 1254: 1168: 1166:Biography portal 1163: 1162: 1161: 1151:Internet Archive 1138: 1124: 1096: 1078: 1077: 1071: 1057: 1056: 1050: 1025: 1024: 1018: 1002: 1001: 995: 981: 980: 966: 965: 963: 961: 947: 941: 935: 929: 928: 927:. 9 August 1879. 917: 911: 910: 899: 893: 892: 881: 875: 874: 866: 860: 859: 851: 845: 839: 833: 827: 821: 820: 819: 813: 811: 809: 794: 788: 787: 786: 780: 778: 776: 761: 755: 754: 753: 747: 745: 743: 728: 722: 716: 710: 704: 695: 689: 674: 673: 672: 666: 664: 662: 647: 632: 626: 601: 595: 494:Bright's disease 392:, and his wife, 366:Catholic convent 291:Nathaniel Gorham 193: 176: 174: 165:Abraham G. 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Mary Alice Fonda
"A Woman of the Century"
A Woman of the Century
Brooklyn
Louisville, Kentucky
nÊe
pen
stage name
elocutionist
music critic
Wagnerian
harmony
Musical Courier
Vienna
bluestocking
polyglot
Brooklyn
Michael Jackson
Newton, Massachusetts
minutemen
battle of Lexington
Oliver Phelps
Boston
Nathaniel Gorham
Seneca nation
Phelps and Gorham Purchase
Presbyterian
Vermont
Brooklyn
Paris

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