Childe Rowland

"Childe Rowland" is a fairy tale, the most popular version being by Joseph Jacobs in his English Folk and Fairy Tales, published in 1892, and written partly in verse and part in prose.

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    ...I knew I wanted to be permanently self-supporting and I vaguely thought I might work somewhere in the realm of ideas. I felt that I had within me an undeveloped fount of ideas. I did not know exactly what my ideas were, but whatever they were I wanted to convert people to them.
    —Rheta Childe Dorr (1866–1948)

    When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of all the other men of her acquaintance for the inattention of just one.
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)