“And this is Love! Oh! why should woman love;
Wasting her dearest feelings, till health, hope,
Happiness, are but things of which henceforth
She'll only know the name?”

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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The Improvisatrice (1824)

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English poet and novelist 1802–1838

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