The Vault at Pfaff's

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

The Paragon of Ugliness [for the New York Saturday Press]

"The Paragon of Ugliness [for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, May 12, 1860, 1.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The narrator explains his attraction to genuinely "ugly" women. Then gives a story of how he came about the ugliest and therefore most transcendent woman he ever saw. Unfortunately, she was not interested in him, and left the city.