Louise Imogen Guiney — a remark

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“Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy.”

On the gradual loss of childhood’s natural hope through ordinary education · Essay, Goose-Quill Papers, 1885

About Louise Imogen Guiney

Louise Imogen Guiney

7 January 1861–2 November 1920

In the twilight of the nineteenth century, when American literature was finding its distinctive voice and women writers were carving out spaces in a predominantly male literary landscape, Louise Imogen Guiney emerged as a singular figure whose work defied easy categorization. Born into an era of transition and living…

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