This 1900 sculpture depicts an ethereal snail-woman hybrid with a delicate human face emerging from antennae and shell.

WOMEN are uncertain creatures, as a class and as individuals, — only to be counted on, according to popular (masculine) tradition, to scream at the sight of a mouse ; to impart any secret rashly ...

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