The Old Maids Club
Book Description
Old Maids Club was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell. In fact she divided her time between making sensations and analyzing them. She never spoke Early English the dialect which so enraged Dr. Johnson but, like John Stuart Mill, she wrote a classical style from childhood. She kept a di...
MoreOld Maids Club was founded by Lillie Dulcimer in her sweet seventeenth year. She had always been precocious and could analyze her own sensations before she could spell. In fact she divided her time between making sensations and analyzing them. She never spoke Early English the dialect which so enraged Dr. Johnson but, like John Stuart Mill, she wrote a classical style from childhood. She kept a diary, not necessarily as aguarantee of good faith, but for publication only. It was labelled Lillie Day by Day, and was posted up from her fifth year. Judging by the analogy of the rest, one night construct the entry for the first day of her life. If she had been able to record her thoughts, her diary would probably have begun thus :S unday, September 3rd: My birthday. Wept at the sight of the world in which I was to be so miserable.
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