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

Dusimora and Dusky Maid [written for the New York Saturday Press]

Bray, Gary. "Dusimora and Dusky Maid [written for the New York Saturday Press]." New-York Saturday Press, March 17, 1860, 3.
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

The narrator pines for the beautiful Dusimora, who he imagines he sees everywhere (including emerging from the pages of a book he is reading). A scenario at an art museum demonstrates Dusimora's feelings for the narrator.