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According to _M.T. A to Z_, "Emmeline's literary inclinations" were
modeled after Twain's "_Quaker City_ shipmate Bloodgood H. Cutter and the
popular contemporary versifier Julia A. Moore" (181).
Cutter, the "Poet Lariat" of _Innocents Abroad_, is mentioned in _I.A._
chapters 7, 10, and 37, but not by name. He published _The Long-Island
Farmer's Poems: Lines Written on the "Quaker City" Excursion_ in 1886 at
his own expense. (103-104)
Moore "was a popular writer of sentimental and banal verses, particularly
obituary poetry . . . Twain bought a copy [of her 1876 _Sentimental Song
Book_] soon after it was first published and seems to have enjoyed dipping
into it through the rest of his life . . . [_H.F._ illustrator] Kemble's
rendering of Emmeline's 'spidery' woman bears an uncanny resemblance to
Moore" (322). _A-Z_ also notes another parady attributed to Moore in Ch.
8 of _Following the Equator_, and Moore excerpts in _F. the E._ Ch. 36 &
44.
larry marshburne [log in to unmask]
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