Dora Knowlton Ranous
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Dora Knowlton Ranous was an American actress, author, editor, translator, and book reviewer. She began her literary career editing educational books and contributing to Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia a
Photo in Dora Knowlton Ranous, Author--editor--translator: A Simple Record of a Noble Life, 1916
George William Curtis
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George William Curtis was an American writer, reformer, public speaker, and political activist. He was an abolitionist and supporter of civil rights for African Americans and Native Americans. He also
Dora Knowlton Ranous
…found pleasure in the study of it. The sisters' summer home was in Ashfield, which was also the location of the summer homes of Charles Eliot Norton and George William Curtis, who naturally attracted such visitors as James Russell Lowell, Francis Parkman, Charles Dudley Warner, and John W. Field. The last-named was a retired…
Curtis between 1855 and 1865
George William Curtis in an 1854 portrait by Samuel Laurence
Curtis circa 1890