Word: herminia
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...WOMAN WHO DID-Grant Allen-Little, Brown ($2). Victorian tea-tables were violently oscillated by the appearance of this shocking tale 31 years ago. Only the wicked Continental authors had thitherto dared treat openly of females who "did." Author Allen's Herminia Barton not only "did" but gloried in it, and he in her. Daughter of a dean, school mistress of proper young ladies, Herminia positively refused to be made an honest woman, though her sensible lover, Alan Merrick, pleaded, and her would-be father-in-law cabled to them in Perugia with a flourish. Nevertheless, Victorian sympathy surged...