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Title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14
Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women

Author: Elbert Hubbard

Release Date: October 18, 2004 [EBook #13778]

Language: English

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Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great

Elbert Hubbard

Memorial Edition

Printed and made into a Book by The Roycrofters,
who are in East Aurora, Erie County, New York

Wm. H. Wise & Co.

New York

1916

Little Journeys To the Homes of Famous Women

CONTENTS

ELBERT HUBBARD II vii
ELIZABETH B. BROWNING 15
MADAME GUYON 41
HARRIET MARTINEAU 67
CHARLOTTE BRONTE 93
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI 113
ROSA BONHEUR 133
MADAME DE STAEL 161
ELIZABETH FRY 187
MARY LAMB 213
JANE AUSTEN 235
EMPRESS JOSEPHINE 257
MARY W. SHELLEY 283

ELBERT HUBBARD II

BERT HUBBARD

We are not sent into this world to do anything into which we can
not put our hearts. We have certain work to do for our bread and
that is to be done strenuously, other work to do for our delight
and that is to be done heartily; neither is to be done by halves
or shifts, but with a will; and what is not worth this effort is
not to be done at all.
--_John Ruskin_

I am Elbert Hubbard's son, and I am entirely familiar with the proposition
that "Genius never reproduces."

Heretofore, it has always been necessary to sign my name, "Elbert Hubbard
II"--but now there is an embarrassment in that signature, an assumption
that I do not feel.

There is no Second Elbert Hubbard. To five hundred Roycrofters, to the
Village of East Aurora, and to a few dozen personal friends scattered over
the face of the earth, I am Bert Hubbard, plain Bert Hu