The Losing Side by Mrs. Frank Lee
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ePublished by
March 2019
Originally published 1888
Poem & dialogue, Mrs. Frank Lee, Christian
Author: Mrs. Frank Lee
ePublished by
March 2019
Originally published 1888
Poem & dialogue, Mrs. Frank Lee, Christian
Author: Mrs. Frank Lee
A short little hard-covered pamphlet of the temperance movement—comprising an 824-word poem titled “The Losing Side” followed by a 1,441-word dialogue titled “Why He Didn’t Insure”—originally published in 1888, is here re-published as an eBook because of the importance of the author. Mrs. Frank Lee—born Mary Chappell Skeel in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, in 1849—is probably the greatest writer the average reader never heard of, and this was the first thing she ever published. Whether or not the pamphlet had any effect on getting Prohibition passed thirty two years later, seeing her words in print apparently inspired the author to bless posterity with at least nine other works, mostly novels. In that respect at least the pamphlet was a huge success.