"A mad little maid is Rose Madder, As bad as they make 'em and badder. At her window one night Was the scandalous sight Of a lad and, God help us, a ladder."
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Limerick included in a letter to R. H. Croll (c. 1928); reported in Croll's autobiography I Recall: Collections and Recollections (1939), ch. 10
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Blamire Young
William Blamire Young (9 August 1862 – 14 January 1935), commonly known as Blamire Young, was an English-Australian artist and art critic. He painted primarily in watercolour.
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