Mothers and daughters

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O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife,
But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Craik

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Topic

Mothers and sons Mothers and daughters

Speaker

Fea

Author

Dinah Craik

Source

Magnus and Morna

Language

English

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
Calls back the lovely April of her prime.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 3

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Topic

Women's attractiveness Mothers and daughters

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Sonnet 3 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

Language

English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 3, I. 9.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 3.

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As is the mother, so is her daughter.

Ezekiel 16:44

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Topic

Mothers and daughters Parents and children

Source

Ezekiel The Bible

Medium

Scripture

Genre

Religious literature

Language

Hebrew

Time

570 BC 570s BC 6th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

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Citation

The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Ezekiel 16:44).