A Puritan Bohemia

A Puritan Bohemia (1896)
by Margaret Sherwood

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"This Bohemia is not the gay and reckless European art-world, but a Bohemia of the New World, into which the sad, earnest, ascetic quality of the Puritan has entered; and where the author tells us "the only lotus-eating is hard work." The shadows of philanthropy and transcendentalism hover over it, ..."

"The main theme is a carefully worked out and suggestive study of the earnest women who voluntarily follow an intellectual, artistic, or philanthropical mission—women who are frequently possessed of more ambition than capacity." —Review in The Bookman

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A PURITAN BOHEMIA

BY

MARGARET SHERWOOD
Author of "An Experiment in Altruism"

Leontes. Where's Bohemia? Speak.
Lord. Here in your city.

Winter's Tale

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1896

COPYRIGHT, 1896,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co. — Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

A PURITAN BOHEMIA

CONTENTS (not listed in original)

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1896, before the cutoff of January 1, 1928.

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