Word: washerwoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washerwoman Duchess...
Aside from various books and letters of value, a million and a half dollars seems a high price for such relies as those with which Dr. Rosenbach returned. Death masks are ornamental, of course, and a "fine Holland shirt" would probably survive at least one session with the washerwoman: but what secret passion could be satisfied by a "picket containing Napoleon's Hair", and a mummified tendon from the body of the Emperor, in a strange little box with a glass window", is hard for the layman to under stand. Moments of so distinctly personal a character might better have...
...Stories. The Doll's House deals with a wonderful doll's house given to some moderately well-to-do children. They treasure it?show it off to all their school friends except the little Kelveys, the washerwoman's daughters. Then one day the Kelveys do see it?and are almost instantly scolded away by a proper grownup. But they have seen it. The children in The Doll's House live and breathe?Katherine Mansfield told a little about them but not nearly...