Poetry · Character
Mother Jones
A temperance firebrand whose reforming zeal collides with the cynical political operators of Bierce's satirical stage.
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First appearance: poetry
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Celebrated as a warrior-dame who led armed women on Washington during a coal strike, reducing the city to ruins.
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Mother Jones moves through a world of scheming editors, opportunistic candidates, and self-serving reformers, where virtue is a commodity to be traded. Her earnest crusade against drink is undercut by the play's parade…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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