"Quill pen in hand, the pensive young woman is looking for inspiration" (Gold, p. 5). Inspiration was in abundance in 1892. "Lady Windermere's Fan," by Oscar Wilde, debuted; Virginia Stephen (Virginia Woolf) sailed out to a lighthouse. Yeats founded the Irish Literary Society in Dublin. Arthur Conan Doyle published his complete adventures of Sherlock Holmes. With our author's wild hair blowing amid the clouds of "a dark and stormy night," this poet's lyre will sing. This is the rare, smallest format.
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literature: (all var): DFP-II, 404; Maitres, 158; Berthon & Grasset, p. 33; Musée d’Affiche, p. 52; Gold, 3; PAI-LXXVI, 283