Writings by Susan Dickinson


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H bMS Am 1118.95, Box 9


ideal of a woman who glows
and attracts in her home -
"She exercised at her fireside
that woman's stimulus, which in
its perverted form tempts men to
overstep the boundaries of duty
as an elevating, restraining in-
fluence to keep them up to, and
within its requirements."
May Hardy never descend
to detail or forget, that to
tell all is cheap, the un-
speakable alone is divine.
There are [Koles?] books and
Primers for those who want

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