Paul's Church in Brookline, Massachusetts, on 5 July, her parents had changed her name to Amy--a softening of her name that Lowell forever regretted.
Raised in a stately brownstone mansion on Sevenels, a ten-acre estate purchased by her father after the Civil War, Lowell was accustomed to gracious living, a life of opulence supported by a full staff of servants. She continued to live at Sevenels for the rest of her life, for most of that time with a devoted secretary-companion, Mrs. Ada Dwyer Russell, whom she met in 1912--and with as many as seven sheep dogs. Typically she disapproved of wasting time and money on frivolities, claiming that she was "an old-fashioned Puritan [who] let each day pass well-ordered in its usefulness."
First tutored at home by governesses and then attending Boston private schools--between junkets abroad with her family--Lowell from early childhood was encouraged to write.
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