The Heavenly Twins (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) - Softcover

A fascinating exploration of gender issues and feminist agendas of the New Woman movement of the late 1800s

The time is racked with birth-pangs; every hour Brings forth some gasping truth, and truth new-born Looks a misshapen and untimely growth, The terror of the household and its shame, A monster coiling in its nurses lap That some would strangle, some would starve ;B ut still it breathes, and passed from band to hand. And suckled at a hundred half-clad breasts Comes slowly to its stature and its form, Calms the rough ridges of its dragon scales. Changes to shining locks its snaky hair. And moves transfigured into Angel guise, Welcomed by all that cursed its hour of birth, And folded in the same encircling arms That cast it like a serpent from their hold! Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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