References To Other Works
- The names Meg, Jose, and Laurie may be related to Louisa May Alcott's 1868 novel Little Women.
- The characters are also used in Mansfield's 1921 short story "Her First Ball".
- The events of the story are based on the Greek myth of Persephone.
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“The works of women are symbolical.
We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull our sight,
Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,
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Or else at best, a cushion, where you lean
And sleep, and dream of something we are not,
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This hurts most, this ... that, after all, we are paid
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