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a| Smyth, Ethel,
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a| Impressions that remained :
b| memoirs /
c| by Ethel Smyth.
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a| London ;
a| New York :
b| Longmans, Green, and Co.,
c| 1919.
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g| Volume 1.
g| Part 1.
t| The Smyth family Robinson --
g| To 1867.
g| Origins ;
g| Paper Smyth ;
g| His works and friends ;
g| My grandfather ;
g| His speeches to the Yeomanry during the riots ;
g| My sisters and eldest brother ;
g| Sidcup place described ;
g| Childish memories and adventures ;
g| Crimes and punishments ;
g| Amusements ;
g| My 'passions' ;
g| Relations ;
g| Hugo J., the family artist ;
g| The redoubtable Colonel O'H. ;
g| Old Indians ;
g| Household Hindustani ;
t| Bonnemaman ;
g| The 'legend' ;
g| Her second husband ;
g| Her difficulties ;
g| Her men friends ;
g| The Agra bank fails --
g| My father.
g| My father's Indian beginnings ;
g| His popularity ;
g| His country work ;
g| His politics ;
g| His dislike of the artistic temperament ;
g| His reading of the lessons ;
g| His characteristics and verbal slips ;
g| His leniency and rigidity ;
g| His death ;
g| A valedictory notice --
g| My mother.
g| My mother's education in France ;
g| She marries and goes to India ;
g| Her foreign ways and unconventionality ;
g| Her appearance ;
g| Her love of society ;
g| Her gifts for languages and music ;
g| Her difficult character and loveableness ;
g| Her great sorrow ;
g| Is bored by having visitors to stay ;
g| The monotony of her life ;
g| Her ill health and death --
g| A retrospect.
g| We leave sidcup for Frimhurst ;
g| Our social framework ;
g| Neighbourliness, with limitations ;
g| Parties and balls ;
g| Relations with the village ;
g| Outdoor relief ;
g| Moral conditions and drunkenness in Frimley --
g| 1867 to 1872.
g| My early musical tendencies ;
g| Arrival at Frimhurst ;
g| Our new home described ;
g| Birth of Bob ;
g| Johnny goes to Westminster ;
g| Dr. Charles Scott (Uncle Charles) and his wife (Aunt Susan) ;
g| A tragedy on Fox Hills ;
g| Our governesses ;
g| Miss Hammond's Chignon ;
g| The Franco-Prussian war ;
g| Catalogues of 'Passions' and 'Things to be avoided' ;
g| Education ;
g| Frimley Green and the fair ;
g| Skating and donkeys ;
g| A churchyard episode ;
g| A fight in the 'Three-decker' ;
g| Mary and I perform at village entertainments ;
g| A religious impression ;
g| We perform at Aldershot ;
g| My father's speech ;
g| The conjuror ;
g| Alice's proposal scene ;
g| Our boy-admirers ;
g| 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' ;
g| Musical tortures ;
g| An imaginary tragedy ;
g| Lying ;
g| I determine to study music at Leipzig ;
g| My father retires and buys Frimhurst ;
g| 'Larking' the horses ;
g| Farmyard episodes ;
g| My father as country gentleman --
g| 1872-1873.
g| Our diaries ;
g| Mary and I go to school ;
g| Our life there ;
g| I hear Patti ;
g| Inward conflicts ;
g| Confirmation ;
g| A distressing conversion ;
g| Early 'poems' ;
g| The priest's love affair and Mr. Longman --
g| 1873-1875.
g| The children and Miss Gobell ;
g| Their theatricals ;
g| Queer neighbours ;
g| A dance at the longmans ;
g| The drain adventure ;
g| Colonel McIvor and Madame de S. I leave school, learn Italian, and fail for the Cambridge local examination ;
g| Alice's and Mary's marriages ;
g| Johnny's death --
g| 1875-1876.
g| Music and religion ;
g| Social ambition phase ;
g| The Ewings ;
g| 'Aunt Judy' ;
g| Mr. Ewing gives me harmony lessons ;
g| My father's aversion to him ;
g| The lessons are stopped ;
g| I visit the O'H.'s in Ireland ;
g| My engagement to Mr. Willie Wilde ;
g| I come out ;
g| Balls ;
g| A sentimental illusion --
g| 1876-1877.
g| A Wagner concert ;
g| I break the Filly ;
g| Country house visiting ;
t| 'Schon Rothraut' ;
g| Reels and a hunt ;
t| Introduction to Madame Schumann ;
t| First Acquaintance with Brahms's music ;
g| My Leipzig project announced ;
g| My father's fury ;
t| George Eliot at St. James's hall ;
g| Visit to two artists ;
g| Friends who backed my up ;
g| Militant methods at home ;
g| Capitulation of my father ;
g| Departure for Leipzig --
g| Appendix I.
g| Letter from Mrs. Opie, March 1848 ;
g| Letters from S.D., a schoolboy admirer, aged thirteen ;
g| Letters from my mother, 1873-1875 ;
g| Letters from Alexander Ewing, Esq., 1876-1877 --
g| Part II.
g| Germany and two winters in Italy.
g| Summer 1877.
g| Germany in 1877 ;
g| Arrival at Leipzig ;
g| Description on the town ;
g| My landlady, Frau Professor Heimbach ;
g| My fellow lodger ;
g| Strange croquet ;
g| A fortnight in Thuringia ;
t| George Henschel and others ;
g| Musical encouragement ;
g| Part-singing in the woods ;
g| Old Leipzig ;
g| I go disguised to a concert ;
t| The Rontgen family ;
g| A blend of art and courtship ;
g| Anecdote about Kreisler, as contrast --
g| Winter 1877-1878.
g| THe conservatorium ;
g| My masters ;
t| The Gewandhaus concerts ;
g| The old concert hall ;
g| Acoustics ;
g| Chamber music ;
g| B. turns over for Frau Schumann ;
g| The libel suit and an admirer's chivalry ;
g| His subsequent career ;
t| The Brockhaus family ;
g| New Year's Eve at the Rontgens ;
g| The drama ;
g| The Geistinger episode ;
g| The Tauchintz family ;
g| End of the Geistinger episode --
g| Early 1878.
t| Brahms conducts his D major symphony ;
g| My introduction to him ;
g| His irony ;
g| A critic's remark on the symphony ;
g| I hear bout the Herzogenbergs ;
g| I move to Salomonstrasse 19 ;
g| Life there described ;
g| I plunge into the world ;
g| Leipzig society ;
t| The Gewandhaus Gesellschaft, the professional set, and the artist world ;
g| Particularism ;
g| Dialect ;
t| Frau Livia Frege ;
g| Frau Lili Wach (daughter of Mendelssohn) and her husband ;
g| Orthodox piety in Germany ;
t| Elisabeth von Herzogenberg ('Lisl') ;
g| Her beauty ;
g| Her talents ;
g| Her musical genius ;
g| Other characteristics ;
g| Her husband and his compositions ;
g| The Limburger family ;
g| Two Leipzig characters, Frau von B and Frau Dr. E. anecdotes about the latter --
g| Spring 1878.
g| Herzogenberg becomes my master ;
g| I join the Bach Verein ;
g| An anti-English stationer ;
g| I stay at 'the Berg' with Frau Doctor Brockhaus ;
g| I fall ill and am nursed by Lisl ;
g| Beginning of our friendship ;
g| A glance into the future --
g| Appendix II.
g| Letters from myself to my mother and other members of the family 1877-1878 ;
g| Letters from Elisabeth von Herzogenberg (Lisl), May 27 to June 9, 1878 --
g| Summer 1878.
g| Return to Enlgand ;
g| All exertion forbidden ;
g| A sentimental aftermath ;
g| I work badly ;
g| We perform the 'Liebeslieder-Walzer' ;
g| Home finances ;
g| Return to Leipzig via Holland --
g| Autumn and winter 1878.
g| Visit to Utrecht ;
g| Music there ;
g| The Zuyder Zee ;
g| Arrival at Leipzig ;
g| My 'Variations' approved ;
t| The Merseburger household (salomonstrasse 19) ;
g| I become 'the child' at the Herzogenbergs ;
g| Lisl's character and charm ;
g| Frau Schumann's jubilee and a fantastic hung --
t| Brahms.
t| Brahms conducts the violin concerto ;
g| His personality ;
g| His common sense in the Lenbach dispute ;
g| His views on women ;
g| His worhsip of Lisl ;
g| Herzogenberg's music bores him ;
g| His relations with Frau Schumann ;
g| His manners with women ;
g| His horror of being lionized ;
g| His taste in jokes ;
t| His views on Wagner ;
g| Brahms at the piano ;
g| His modesty ;
g| His kindness to me ;
g| Contempt for women composers notwithstanding ;
g| Anecdote about Levi ;
g| My Brahms-poem and its results ;
g| He sends a wreath to Wagner's funeral ;
g| His illness and death --
g| Spring 1879.
t| Grieg ;
g| The Wachs and Herzogenbergs become friends ;
g| Routs ;
g| The opera ;
g| Defects and advantages of my training ;
g| Rural expeditions of the Bach Verein ;
g| A passion performance in the Thomas Kirche ;
g| Lisl's parents appear: they both hate me, especially her mother, Frau von Stockhausen --
g| Summer 1979 to Summer 1880.
g| A vague marriage scheme ;
g| Pan-Germanism ;
g| Speeches and a disaster ;
g| Leipzig fairs ;
g| Christmas at Berlin with teh Fiedlers ;
g| Their personalities ;
g| A new year's festivity at the Joachims ;
t| Rubinstein and the young lady ;
t| Spitta ;
g| Chrysander on old English music ;
g| Fiedler's collection of pictures ;
g| First impressions of Manet's art ;
g| A victim of the Kaiser ;
g| Two English friends (one 'musical') come to Leipzig ;
t| A String Quartet of mine is played at the Wachs ;
g| Crostewitz and its inhabitants ;
g| A cropper on the race course ;
g| 'Miss Hop-in-die Welt' ;
g| I go home via Hamburg and Ragatz ;
g| Financial crisis at home.
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g| Volume 2.
g| Part II.
g| Summer 1880 to summer 1881.
t| 'Chopsticks' ;
t| Adela Wodehouse ;
t| 'Papa's surprise' ;
g| A mis-read symptom ;
g| Friendships between women ;
t| Rhoda Garrett ;
g| Return to Leipzig ;
t| The Reuss-Kostritz family and Prince Heinrich XXI V ;
g| German fury about the S. African war ;
g| I ride a steeplechase ;
g| Home via some old N. German towns ;
g| A 'Novelty' in Rose Trees ;
t| The Garretts and their friends at Rustington ;
g| A strange love episode ;
g| 'Aunt Judy' as chaperone ;
g| Miss H.'s dramatic arrival at Frimhurst ;
g| 'Aunt Judy's' fatal mistake --
g| Appendix III.
g| Letters from Elisabeth von Herzogenberg (Lisl), June 12, 1878 to September 22, 1880 ;
g| Letters from myself to my mother and father (1878-1879) ;
g| Letters from Juliana Horatia Ewing ('Aunt Judy') to my mother, 1879-1883 ;
t| Letter from Edward Greig, 1879 --
g| Autumn 1881 to autumn 1882.
g| Return to Leipzig ;
g| I distress Lisl ;
t| Visit of Captain H. Foster ;
g| Flight to England for Christmas ;
g| Decision to go to Italy in the autumn ;
t| Music at Sydenham ;
t| Brahms's compliment ;
g| The Garretts at Frimhurst ;
g| I go to Switzerland via Rouen ;
g| A first climb with Wach ;
g| Disastrous first view of Venice with the Herzogenbergs --
g| Autumn 1882 to Christmas 1882.
g| Arrival at Florence ;
g| Amey's and my establishment ;
t| The Hildebrand family ;
g| His art and character ;
g| His musical gifts and literary limitations ;
t| The Brewsters ;
g| Their unusual views and ways of life ;
t| First impressions of Harry Brewster ('H.B.') ;
t| Julia Brewster's appearance ;
g| Their criticism of Lisl ;
g| H.B. goes to Algeria ;
g| Rhoda's death --
g| Christmas 1882 to Summer 1883.
g| Amey and I cook our Christmas dinner ;
g| Grief for Rhoda ;
g| I become crippled ;
t| Prince Reuss appears ;
g| We make music ;
g| H.B. returns ;
g| The Brewster's chateau is burnt down ;
t| I meet the Herzogenbergs at Berchtesgaden and make friends with Frau Schumann ;
g| Anecdotes about her --
g| Summer 1883 to December 1883.
g| Aibling ;
g| Its primitive charm ;
g| I am cured ;
g| A glimpse of old Greece ;
g| Journey home via Rothenburg an der Taube ;
g| Rustington without Rhoda ;
g| Financial situation at Frimhurst ;
g| A typical carriage accident ;
g| First meeting with the Empress Eugenie ;
g| Her beauty ;
g| Muirhouse ;
t| Mr. and Mrs. Davidson ;
g| Scotch vowels ;
g| Lisl's irritation at my love of sport ;
g| I begin to distrust Joachim --
g| December 1883 to spring 1884.
t| A visit to Frau Schumann ;
g| Severe illness at Munich ;
t| My String Quintett as performed at Leipzig ;
g| An English widow ;
g| My Florentine landlady ;
g| Wanderings in Italy ;
g| Anecdotes about the Italians ;
g| An adventure by the Arno ;
g| Lisl falls ill ;
g| Salvini and H.B. ;
g| The Fiedlers come to Florence ;
t| Professor Gregorovius ;
g| Hildebrand takes a cast of my face --
g| Spring 1884.
g| A excursion in the Apennines ;
g| The prior ;
g| Enter the Barone ;
g| Our expedition together and its musical Finale ;
g| Return to civilisation ;
g| Astonishment of Lady Ribblesdale ;
g| Biography of the Barone --
g| Spring 1884 to Spring 1885.
g| A contemporary description of H.B. ;
t| Frau von Stockhausen ;
g| A bogus mortal illness ;
g| Home via Berchtesgaden ;
g| Financial situation again ;
g| I learn the organ ;
t| Sir Frederick Ouseley at Bramshill ;
g| Back to Leipzig ;
g| Herzogenberg is offered a post at Berlin ;
g| Scene with a German general ;
g| My mother comes to Leipzig ;
g| Her German conversations ;
g| The great dinner party ;
g| I part from Lisl, never to see her again --
g| Appendix IV.
g| Letters from Elisabeth von Herzogenberg (Lisl) November 5, 1882 to October 5, 1884 ;
g| Letters from my mother, November 1882 and April 1885 ;
g| Letter from Frau Livia Frege, February 1884 --
g| Part III.
g| In the desert.
g| A retrospect of 1884-85 to summer 1885.
g| The story of the Brewsters and myself in 1884 ;
g| Lisl's attitude during our winter at Leipzig, 1884-85 ;
g| Our separation foreshadowed ;
g| Mischief-makers ;
g| The breach ;
g| I decide to stay in England for the present ;
g| Frau von Stockhausen's campaign ;
g| Lisl refuses to clear me ;
g| A reflection on cruel letters --
g| Summer 1885 to autumn 1886.
t| Violet marries Dick Hippisley ;
t| My friendships with Edith Davidson and Mrs. Benson begin ;
t| Nina marries Herbert Hollings ;
g| Major Templer ;
g| His trial for treason and collapse of the case ;
g| Walking tour in Cornwall ;
g| A yachting episode ;
g| A political meeting ;
g| Tin mines ;
g| The piper's hold ;
g| A 'Wreckers' decoration --
g| Autumn 1886 to autumn 1887.
g| Return to Leipzig via Engelberg ;
t| Conrad Fiedler constitutes himself my champion ;
g| Excellent reception at Leipzig ;
g| Lisl captivates Mary Fiedler in Berlin ;
g| Lisl's effectiveness in controversy ;
t| Flying visit to Frimhurst for marriage of Nelly to Hugh Eastwood ;
g| Marco ;
g| Anecdotes about him ;
g| Kindness of Leipzig friends ;
t| Frau Livia Frege's dilemma ;
g| Marco in England ;
g| Bob and I explore the Wye ;
g| Climb in a tower ;
t| Mr. Lowell ;
g| Lisl's last letter ;
g| Hatred a sterile passion --
g| Autumn 1887 to spring 1888.
g| Bob accompanies me to Leipzig ;
t| Johanna Rontgen as teacher ;
g| 'Verboten' ;
g| Kreisler and the two Germans ;
t| Sarasate on 'Carmen' ;
t| Germans on Gounod's 'Faust' ;
t| Irving's production of 'Faust' (the play) ;
t| My Violin Sonata is produced in Leipzig ;
g| A skating adventure ;
g| Joachim's judgment of my music ;
t| The von Webers and Gustav Mahler ;
t| Anecdotes of Greig ;
t| Tschaikowsky ;
t| Morell Mackenzie controversy ;
t| Wach's extraordinary outburst --
g| Appendix V.
g| Letter from Dr. Conrad Fiedler, January 1887 ;
g| Letter from Joseph Joachim, Spring 1888 ;
g| Letters from my mother, 1886-1888 --
g| Summer 1888 to summer 1889.
g| I determine to winter in England ;
g| The genealogical study ;
g| Celibacy of the priesthood ;
g| Irish relations ;
g| Lili pleads for Lisl ;
g| An incident of Herzogenberg's illness ;
g| Hunting in the Sologne ;
g| A 'Hallali' ;
g| A traitor's remark ;
g| Family gathering at Christmas ;
g| The gorilla ;
g| Muirhouse ;
g| Unbelief ;
g| Dr. MacGregor ;
g| His style as preacher ;
g| Our discussions and a misunderstanding --
g| Summer 1889.
g| The Benson family ;
g| Characterisation of Mrs. Benson ;
g| Fred, Arthur, and Maggie Benson ;
g| My friendship with Nelly Benson begins ;
g| Hugh Benson ;
g| My dread of the archbishop and its effects ;
g| The White Heather cricket club ;
g| A match at Lambeth ;
g| Home life incompatible with work ;
g| My mother's depression ;
g| Her bigness of soul ;
g| Financial crisis ;
g| The Paris exhibition ;
g| Marco's excavations ;
g| The Roumanian band ;
g| An immemorial situation --
g| Autumn and winter 1889.
g| Journey to Munich ;
t| Cosima Wagner ;
g| Visit to Fiedlers ;
g| Mary condemns Lisl ;
g| I begin to hate Lisl ;
g| Munich described ;
g| Marco in the Isar ;
g| The witch ;
g| Religious discussions ;
t| A Lutheran protest in Rome ;
g| The mad king's castles ;
g| Levi tries over my Serenade and the Overture ;
g| Financial worries at home ;
g| A living desk ;
t| The Trevelyans appear ;
t| The Missa Solemnis and Levi ;
g| Marco at Rehearsal ;
t| Worishofen and the Kneipp cure ;
g| Two deaths ;
g| Effect on the peasants --
g| Winter 1889 to spring 1890.
t| My friendship with Pauline Trevelyan ;
g| Portraits of her and her mother ;
g| Difficulties about the lodgings ;
g| Letter to Nelly Benson ;
g| A crisis ;
g| The 'Imitation' ;
g| A Christmas service ;
g| I return to England ;
g| Marco's dreadful journey ;
g| Bob goes to India ;
t| My Serenade is performed at the crystal palace ;
g| I meet H.B. again ;
g| Religious belief endures ;
g| Economy at home ;
g| Invention of ladies' bicycles ;
g| I buy one ;
g| Slow subsidence of prejudice against them --
g| Spring and summer 1890.
t| Sir Arthur Sullivan ;
g| Differences between Mrs. Benson and myself ;
g| Evangelicism ;
g| Admiration for Newman ;
g| Dean Lake and Uncle Charles Scott ;
g| The true origin of my Mus. Doc. ;
g| A 'pink' wedding ;
g| Pauline at Addington ;
g| My anglican enthusiasm ;
g| The Assyrian church ;
g| Trial of the bishop of Lincoln ;
g| The archbishop's antipathy grows ;
g| He and Mr. Spurgeon ;
g| Glimpse into the future ;
g| The empress Eugenie and her household ;
g| Injustices of the history ;
t| Lord Rosebery's tribute to H.I.M. --
g| Autumn 1890 to January 1891.
g| Visit to the Trevelyans ;
g| A fantastic dream ;
g| A dull family of genius ;
g| Nelly Benson's death ;
g| My mother's unhappiness ;
g| Her visit to Lambeth ;
g| Mrs. Benson's resignation ;
g| Other orchestral works of mine are performed ;
t| I meet Lady Ponsonby ;
g| H.B. and I resume our friendship ;
t| His books, &c. Christmas and the Henschel's ;
t| The story of Jim Pattle ;
g| My mother's moral effort ;
g| She wishes to leave Frimhurst ;
g| Her illness and death ;
g| A personal incident connected with her last moment --
g| Epilogue.
g| My father's last years and death ;
g| Death of Pauline, Consul Limburger and Frau Livia Frege ;
g| The Empress Eugenie at the Ried ;
g| Lili Wach visits Lambeth ;
g| Her death ;
g| Wach and the girls in London ;
t| Conrad Fiedler's death ;
g| The passing of Papa Rontgen ;
g| My angle towards Lisl since 1889 ;
t| Frau von Stockhausen's illness and death ;
g| Lisl's death ;
g| Herzogenberg and I agree to meet ;
g| His death before that meeting comes off ;
g| Review of Lisl's action ;
g| My present view of it and inward reconciliation with her --
g| Appendix VI.
t| Letter from Tschaikowsky, Spring 1889 ;
g| Letters from my mother, 1889-1890 ;
t| Letters from Sir Arthur Sullivan, 1890-1891 ;
t| Letters from Frau Lili Wach, 1891-1892 ;
g| Letters from Henry Brewster (H.B.), 1891-1892.
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