Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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    Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    Tell me, Grinder, if thou grindest
    Always, always out of tune.
    —Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884)

    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)