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NOVELISTS > novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist > Djuna Barnes
We are beginning...
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We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
Source: The Home Club: For Servants Only, in Brooklyn Daily Eagle (12 Oct. 1913; repr. in Djuna Barnes's New York, 1989).
-- Djuna Barnes, (Jun 12 1892-1982), US novelist, poet, illustrator, dramatist; She was critically acclaimed, though not widely read, for her short stories and one-act plays, many of which she illustrated, e.g. Nightwood, 1936.