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827: 355:, 1850, three editions in the first year. They have the graces of style and thought which would commend them to the favourable consideration of the general reader, with charms that made them the delight of children. During the composition of these juvenile works, she continued her occupation of catering for "children of a larger growth", and gave to the world, in 1846, a work of fiction, entitled 769: 629: 841: 275:. Being the youngest child of a wealthy and retired merchant, she enjoyed to the fullest extent the opportunities of education which these seminaries afforded, as well as that more general, but not less important element of education, the constant intercourse with people of refined taste and cultivated minds. 311:. Her name first came before the public in that year. It was on the title-page of a reading book for young ladies, prepared on a new plan. The plan was to make the selections a series of illustrations of the rules of rhetoric, the examples selected being taken from the best English and American authors. The 292:
flames previous to her marriage. She had imbibed a strong prejudice against literary women, and firmly resolved never to become one. Mr. Tuthill took a different view of the matter, and urged her to a further pursuit of liberal studies and to continue writing. At his solicitation, she wrote regularly for
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appeared in 1849. It was not a collection of nursery rhymes for children, as the title led many to suppose, but a collection of counsels for young mothers respecting the duties of the nursery. These counsels were conveyed under the fiction of an imaginary correspondence between a young mother, just
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Mrs. Tuthill wrote rhymes from childhood, and as far back as she can remember was devoted to books. One of her amusements during girlhood was to write, stealthily, essays, plays, tales, and verses, all of which, however, with the exception of two or three school compositions, were committed to the
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Mr. Tuthill died in 1825, at the age of twenty-nine, leaving a widow and four children, one son and three daughters. As a solace, Mrs. Tuthill used her pen to contribute frequently to literary periodicals, but always anonymously, and with so little regard to fame of authorship as to keep neither
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beginning to dress her first baby, and an experienced aunt. There are few topics in the whole history of the management and the mismanagement of a child, during the first and most important stages of its existence, that are not discussed, with alternate reason and ridicule, in this volume.
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A love for the fine arts was one of the ruling passions of her life. At different times, ample means were within her reach for the cultivation of this class of studies. Partly for her own amusement, and partly for the instruction of her children, she paid special attention to the study of
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volume of tales and essays, having in view the completion of a young lady's education after her leaving school. It shows at once a fertile imagination and varied reading, sound judgment, and a familiar acquaintance with social life. It was frequently reprinted.
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record nor copy of her pieces. Several little books, too, were written by her between 1827 and 1839, for the pleasure of mental occupation, and published anonymously. Some of these held their place in Sunday school libraries.
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who, after his marriage, settled in New Haven. Cornelius himself, as well as his wife, being of a literary turn, their hospitable mansion became the resort for quite an extensive literary circle, some of whom became famous.
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Pearls for young ladies. From the later works of John Ruskin, LL.D. Including letters and advice on education, dress, marriage, influence, work, rights, etc. Collected and arranged by Mrs. Louisa C. Tuthill.,
402:. They are six volumes, of about 200 pages each, and each illustrating the method of success in some particular walk in life, by numerous biographical examples. The titles of the several volumes are: 259:. Her parents were Ebenezer Huggins and his wife, Mary (Dickerman). Tuthill is descended, on both sides, from the early colonists of New Haven, one of her ancestors, on the father's side, being 183:, various; July 6, 1799 – June 1, 1879) was an American author, one of the most successful in the 19th-century. In addition to the first history of architecture published in the United States, 359:, a tale of fashionable life of the present day, conveying, under the garb of an agreeable story, wholesome counsels for the young of both sexes on the all-engrossing subject of marriage. 527:
The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion, selected from the works of John Ruskin, A.M., with a notice of the author, by Mrs. L. C. Tuthill.
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Her next publication was a series of small volumes for boys and girls, which were, of all her writings, the most widely and the most favourably known. They are
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architecture in its aesthetical character, enjoying, while thus engaged, the free use of the library of
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in 1839, to be with her son, Charles Henry Tuthill (1818–1850), then studying law with Governor
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Precious thoughts; moral and religious. Gathered from the works of John Ruskin, A.M.
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Tuthill engaged upon a series of works grouped together under the general title of
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during its continuance, which, however, was only for a couple of years.
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In 1817, she married Cornelius Tuthill (1795–1825), a lawyer of
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Appleby, Joyce; Chang, Eileen; Goodwin, Neva (July 17, 2015).
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Louisa Caroline Huggins was born on July 6, 1799, at
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Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill
New Haven, Connecticut
Grove Street Cemetery
Theophilus Eaton
née
pen names
New Haven, Connecticut
Theophilus Eaton
New Haven Colony
Litchfield, Connecticut
Yale College
Newburgh, New York
Hartford, Connecticut
William W. Ellsworth
octavo
sextodecimos
Ithiel Town
Roxbury, Boston
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Princeton, New Jersey
Grove Street Cemetery


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