Harper, Charles George, 1863- · London, Chapman & Hall · leaf 131
THE '• GOOD WOMAN "3 in modern England. Virgil's description of Fame, walking the earth, her head lost to sight in the clouds, may have originated the pictorial sign of the headless woman in days of ancient learning ; and the classic allusion becoming lost and the supposedly incorrect spelling of… … THE "GOOD WOMAN'*' SIGN. able derivation. We may take it that many shrew- bitten folks, innkeepers and customers alike, readily agreed to forget the original meaning in order to adopt one so exactly fitting their opinion that the only quiet or good women were headless ones. Unhappily, in that…
Norwich Road · England -- Description and travel
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