“It seems to me that the sound of my six little feet is the very…” — Elizabeth Prentiss

“It seems to me that the sound of my six little feet is the very pleasantest sound in the world.”

Finding intense happiness in the ordinary sounds of family life · Letter to a sister-in-law, 15 January 1864

About Elizabeth Prentiss

26 October 1818–13 August 1878

Elizabeth Prentiss, born Elizabeth Payson on 26 October 1818 in Portland, Maine, and dead on 13 August 1878 in Dorset, Vermont, belonged to that important company of nineteenth-century American women whose literary influence was felt most deeply in homes, churches, and private devotional reading rather than in the…

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