Beginning in late 1867, Swinburne had a brief affair with the American performer and writer Adah Isaacs Menken
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August 1868: A week after the death of US Jewish writer...
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August 1868
A week after the death of US Jewish writer Adah Isaacs Menken
(famous in London as a near-naked daredevil rider on stage in Mazeppa; or, the Wild Horse of Tartary), her poetry volume Infelicia...
