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A very queer, composite being thus emerges Imaginatively she is of the highest importance;
practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all
but absent from history.She dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she
was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most
inspired words, some of the most profound thoughts in literature fall from her lips; in real life she
could hardly read, could scarcely spell, and was the property of her husband.