An Old Friend in a New Dress ; (Not by the Author of The Three Fishers)

"An Old Friend in a New Dress ; (Not by the Author of The Three Fishers)." New York Saturday Press. 18 Dec. 1858: 4.

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newspaper

Genre:

poetry

Abstract:

In this parody of Charles Kingsley's poem "The Three Fishers," three wives spend all of their husbands' money on silks and flowers to make dresses as a display of their wealth, but later that week an article in the newspaper reveals to the town that they are bankrupt.

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