An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

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, December 18, 1858, 4.
Type
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.