“A blatant Bassarid of Boston, a rampant Maenad of Massachusetts.”

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

Referring to Harriet Beecher Stowe
Under the Microscope (1872)

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English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic 1837–1909

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