Repplier
Americannoun
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In Philadelphia, Agnes Repplier tatted spinsterish essays on tea and cats.
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Other women had been so honored before: Eliza Allen Starr for art criticism; Agnes Repplier for essays; Christian Reed for novels; Katherine E. Con way for poetry.
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Agnes Repplier does her best to humanize this factual account of missionary activity but admits finally: "Mere Marie was fundamentally humorless."
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Miss Repplier could not be disputatious if she would.
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Miss Repplier says that it is because we are a "humorous rather than a witty people that we laugh for the most part with, and not at our fellow creatures."
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