19 May 2023: "Mr. Emerson I didn't fancy...” --Susan Warner in an 1846 (or 1847) letter about her visit to Boston (qtd. in Damon-Bach 26).
It just made me laugh. That's all.
Work Cited
Damon-Bach, Lucinda L. “To Be a ‘Parlor Soldier’: Susan Warner’s Answer to Emerson’s ‘Self-Reliance.’” Separate Spheres No More: Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930, edited by Monika M. Elbert, U of Alabama P, 2000, pp. 29–49.
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