"We used to think...when I was an unsifted girl...that words were weak and cheap. Now I don't know of anything so mighty." -Emily Dickinson
Thursday, July 6, 2023
"sketchiest facts..."
6 July 2023: Got a chuckle out of this phrasing, thinking about how language and connotation changes over time.
Work Cited
Sale, Maggie Montesinos. “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 122: American Women Prose Writers, 1870-1920, edited by Sharon M. Harris, et al., Gale, 2000, pp. 182-192.
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