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Tragic Mansions author warned against social glitter
New York author Mrs. Lydig, linked to W. E. D. Stokes, penned a critique of love less weddings and American social decadence in her book Tragic Mansions. She denounced high society's fashions as pernicious and urged Americans to resist imitation of the fashionable rich.
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