Category: Kate Dickinson Sweetser

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

“Oh, but I would like to be a soldier!”

The exclamation did not come from a man or boy as might have been expected, but from Mary Ludwig, a young, blue-eyed, freckled, red-haired serving-maid in the … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Johannes Chrysostemus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart—what a burden to be put upon a baby’s tiny shoulders!

If there is any truth underlying the belief that a name can in some measure foreshadow a child’s future, then surely … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Sunlight glinting between huge forest trees, and blue skies over-arching the Indian village of Werewocomoco on the York River in Virginia, where Powhatan, the mighty “Werowance,” or ruler over thirty tribes, was living.

Through Orapakes and … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

IN the early years of the nineteenth century, frequenters of that part of London near the beautiful Kensington Palace and the still more beautiful gardens bearing its name, used to enjoy almost daily glimpses of a … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

IT was a day in late April. In the flourishing Indian town of Yupaha, a town lying on the east bank of the Savannah River, in what is now the State of South Carolina, an unusual … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

It was the winter of 1835. Study hour was just over in one of Philadelphia’s most famous “finishing schools” of that day, and half a dozen girls were still grouped around the big center-table piling their … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

THE peaceful little French village of Domrémy lies in the valley of the river Meuse, at the south of the duchy of Bar, and there five hundred years ago was born the wonderful “Maid of France,” … Read the rest

by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

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