Ludwig Meidner, The Corner House (Villa Kochmann), 1913. Oil on canvas, 97,2 x 78 cm. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.
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“If you chance to find an authoress occupied with her needle, express no astonishment, and refrain from exclaiming, ‘What! can you sew?’ or, ‘I never supposed a literary lady could even hem a handkerchief!’ This is false, and if expressed in words, an insulting idea. A large number of literary females are excellent needle-women, and good housewives; and there is no reason why they should not be.” Etiquette for dealing with the authoress, from 1854.
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The Norton Anthology of No Drama
Pull a handmade book of strings (by Kate Callan)
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