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- Tags: self reliance
The Deformed Boy
Tags: 1840, 4th of July, abandonment, Aeolus, Aladdin's lamp, almshouse, Apollo, benevolence, Benjamin Franklin, boyhood, charity, Christianity, Consumption, Cotton Mather, deathbed, deformity, fairy, Fortunatus' cap, funeral, gender roles, girls-work, God, gratitude, H. Gally Knight, Honesty, Independence Day, intemperance, juvenile literature, knitting, laudanum, literacy, Magnalia Christi Americana, marriage, Midas, Mothers, orphans, Ovid, philosopher's stone, poverty, prayer, Proverbs 30:24, Psalm 103, public assistance, public education, rickets, self reliance, sewing, shame, shopkeeper, sons, star-spangled banner, Stories for Young Persons, tears, virtue, widows
Full Thirty
Tags: 1836, As You Like It, bachelors, boarding house, camelias, class, coming out, Cymbeline, fashion, Female education, fire insurance stock, Grace Church, Harpers, heroism, King Lear, Ladies' Depository, marriage, May-December romance, Much Ado About Nothing, New York City, Pyramus and Thisbe, self reliance, Shakespeare, society, The 1835 Great Fire of New York, The Tempest, The Token and Atlantic Souvenir, the unconscious, Wall Street, women and work