“She is a sensitive poet who, unfortunately, cannot write.”

— Adah Isaacs Menken

Charles Dickens, Jewish Virtual Library http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/AMenken.html
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American actress, dancer, painter and poet 1835–1868

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