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

On the Town

Stoddard, Richard Henry. "On the Town." New-York Saturday Press 2, no. 11 (1859): 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Poem about a woman who falls in love with a married man, sleeps with him, and then is scorned by all as a harlot. A commentary about the social inequality between the sexes.

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