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SÖNYA KOVALÉVSKY
she shrank back from all opportunities of executing what
she had dreamed of."
The author herself did not yet know; but then came
that crisis in her own life which rejuvenized and
transformed her, giving her the power to reply to the question
that had arisen in the life of her heroine. Alie loves,
because Anna Carlotta at last understood what love was —
the love that rids life of all disharmony and all hesitation,
and, from the perfect balance and fusion of the feelings,
evolves the still intact but renovated and completed
individual. " Womanliness and Erotics" indeed reveals the
bliss derived by its author from an affection for the first
time felt and requited.
After this, the Duchess wrote a drama in three acts,
entitled " Domestic Happiness"; some character sketches; and
a fantastic dramatic poem, " The Search after Truth,"
which, under the influence of the rich Southern imagination
of her husband, displays a force of artistic representation
not found in her early productions.
When Sönya Kovalévsky died in 1891, Anna Carlotta
forsook all other work in order to write the biography of her
friend. It was her own last work, and was generally
considered to be one of the most exact and perfect
psychological studies to be found in contemporary literature, and, at
the same time, a delightful and genial work of art.
The newly married Duchess of Cajanello felt quite at
home in Italy, and was never afflicted by home-sickness.
She was already perfectly acquainted with the Italian
language, and surrounded herself with a select circle of
scientific and literary men, old and new friends of her husband.
One of those who frequented the Duke’s house in Naples
describes it as full of sunshine and happiness. The
Duchess, tall and fair, had the charm of simple dignity, and at
the same time the grace of cordiality. The Duke, on the
other hand, had the ease and unconventionality of manner
proper to a man of science, and one who had broken with
the prejudices of his aristocratic class.
Much as Anna Carlotta had been beloved by her early
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