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Esther Clark Quotes

English poet (bap. 1716, d. 1794)

Esther Lewis (1716–1794) was an English poet who published in the fashionable Bath Journal and occasionally in the Gentleman's Magazine. She is also known by her pen name of Sylvia and her later married name of Esther Clark.

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Are simple women only fit </br> To dress, to darn, to flower, or knit, </br> To mind the distaff, or the spit? </br> Why are the needle and the pen </br> Thought incompatible by men?

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