I was thrilled the designer of the cover decided to use this picture of Hosmer. Unlike some others, this one has not been published often, if at all. And it captures her energetic spirit–she looks ready to take off for one of her jaunts across Europe or walk briskly through the streets of Rome to her studio. That shade of red is one of my favorite colors as well.
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Harriet Hosmer was from Watertown Massachusetts. The wonderful public library there has some of her papers, as well as several of her works and her sculpting tools. Below is a gallery of some pictures I took while visiting last fall. (In a strange twist, my Aunt Betsy worked at this library in the 1970s.)
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My biography of the 19th-century sculptor Harriet Hosmer will be published by the University of Massachusetts Press in November 2010. In this space, I will discuss Hosmer, events I am doing to promote the book, and other items of interest to fans of biography, nineteenth-century history, and New York.
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