In sketching some of the literary women of New-York, their salons, their achievements, their home life, Mrs. Botta naturally headed the list.Famed editor and publisher, Horace Greeley, said of her, "Anne Lynch is the best woman that God ever made."Edgar Allen Poe, who gave the first reading of "The Raven" in her salon said, "She is chivalric, self-sacrificing, equal to any fate, capable even of martyrdom, in whatever should seem to her a holy cause. She has a hobby, and this is, the idea of duty."Her weekly New York literary salon included everyone who was anyone of her day. She was universally admired, loved, and respected.Included in this volume are letters to her from Daniel Webster, Andrew Carnegie, Ralph Emerson. Her own sensitive writing was in poetry and prose but her art was the encouragement of other talents. She took great pride in the accomplishments of women.As she refused to write her autobiography, her husband gathered these memories from her dearest friends and published them after her death in 1891.For the first time, this long out-of-print book is available in an affordable, well-formatted edition for e-readers and smartphones.Be sure to LOOK INSIDE or download a sample.Some of the guests in her salon included Poe, Willis, Morris, Fanny Osgood, Emerson, Mrs. Whitman, Dr. Brownson, Crancb, Cheney, Bryant, Theodore Sedgwick, Clark, Irving, the Cary sisters, Bancroft, Halleck, Grace Greenwood, Greeley, Tuckerman, Stoddard, Dr. Holland, Bigelow, Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge, Mrs. Kirkland, Huntington, E. Booth, Dr. Bellows, H. Giles, Bayard Taylor, H. W. Beecher, Raymond, Stedman, Helen Hunt, Mrs. Leonowens, Miss North, E. Lazarus, A. D. White, Bartholdi, R. Proctor, Froude, Charles Kingsley, Matthew Arnold, Lord Houghton, Lord Amberley, Lyulph Stanley. Madame Ristori, Salvini, Pechter, Campanini, and Madame Gerster.
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