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Brewer's: Fanny Fern

A nom de plume of Mrs. Sarah Payson Parton, sister of Mr. N. P. Willis, the American poet. (Born 1811, died 1872.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

Brewer's: Millwood

(Sarah). The courtesan who enticed George Barnwell to robbery and murder. (See Barnwell.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894MiloMillstones of Montisci A B C…

Brewer's: Schoolmistress

(The), by Shenstone, is designed for a “portrait of Sarah Lloyd,” the dame who first taught the poet himself. She lived in a thatched house before which grew a birch tree. Source:…

Brewer's: Atossa

Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, so called by Pope, because she was the friend of Lady Mary Wortley Montague, whom he calls Sappho. Herodotus says that Atossa, the mother of Xerxes, was a…
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