WorkThomas Hood
"The Schoolmistress Abroad" (in Hood's Own, 1839, or related comic works)
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) · in Hood's Own, 1839, or related comic works
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“The Schoolmistress Abroad," which was new to us. Miss Crane, a "she Mentor, stiff as starch, formal as a Dutch ledge, sensitive as a daguerreotype...”
Fuller, Margaret. Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. Boston: Brown, Taggard and Chase, 1860.
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“Miss Crane, a “she Mentor, stiff as starch, formal as a Dutch hedge, sensitive as a Daguerreotype, and so tall, thin and upright, that supposing the Tree of Knowledge to have been a poplar, she was the very Dryad to have fitted it,”
“The younger, Miss Ruth, was somewhat less disconcerted.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Thomas Hood." New-York Daily Tribune, 18 July 1845.