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Excerpt from Memorial of William Allen Butler William Allen Butler was Lorn at Albany, on February 20. 1825, and died at Yonkers, on September 9, 1902. He was a son of Benjamin F. Butler and Harriet Allen, his wife. She was a relative of Lieutenant William Howard Allen of the Navy, for whom William Allen Butler was named. Benjamin F. Butler was one of the most distinguished lawyers of his time. He was Attorney-General in the cabinets of Presidents Jackson and Van Buren. One of William Allen Butler's earliest recollections was of being frequently, when a little boy, at the White Hou where he was an especial pet of President Van Buren. The relations between Mr. Van Buren and William Allen Butl...
Satire in verse on the fashions and extravagance of New York female aristocracy; first appeared in Harper's weekly journal.--from the publisher's description.
This poem describes women's fashionable life as wasteful and their social position as parasitic.