The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Curious if True

Anonymous. "Curious if True." Vanity Fair, September 15, 1860, 146.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
satire
Abstract

Report of a young woman being committed after reading Paradise Lost. The Vanity Fair wonders what would've happened had she read contemporary writers.