John Smith Phelps

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    “It was in and about the Martinmas time,
    When the green leaves were afalling,
    That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country,
    Fell in love with Barbara Allan.”
    —Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 1–4)

    “He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.”
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    “To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.”
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)