Eliza Farnham
Eliza Wood Burns Farnham was a 19th-century American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for prison reform.
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Trending topics shown first"The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who wil…"
"Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them."
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1815
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Birth1864
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