"To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather make odes than beds."
— Dilys Laing

January 1, 1970

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Sonnet to a Sister in Error", l. 10. Collected Poems (1967) p. 318. Sonnet addressed to Anne, Countess of Winchilsea, with epigraph: "Whilst the dull manage of a servile house / Is held by some our utmost art and use.