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Like the previous posters I was rather confused/shocked by the casual mention of her using opium. I suppose I have the same question as above how often did people of her status use opium? Another thing that caught my attention was her saying “I was amused. Said Elizabeth was his /present/ wife.” this is an example of what we talked about earlier in the semester about “now wives” and such. –Megan M. | Like the previous posters I was rather confused/shocked by the casual mention of her using opium. I suppose I have the same question as above how often did people of her status use opium? Another thing that caught my attention was her saying “I was amused. Said Elizabeth was his /present/ wife.” this is an example of what we talked about earlier in the semester about “now wives” and such. –Megan M. | ||
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| + | I was, like everyone else that posted, shocked by the way Mary's discussed her use of opium. It seems strange to me that a woman in her position would be using drugs. I am also curious as to how many other women were using opium. Was this common? -Katelyn Lease | ||
== Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. == | == Rose Williams’s Story in the Federal Writers’ Project Interviews, 1941. == | ||
