“Too innocent for coquetry, too fond for idle scorning—
Oh friend, I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes heaviest mourning.”

— Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton

Bingen on the Rhine.

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English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808–1877

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