The Dowry of Virgins & Other Stories

Chinese lecturer sorry for ‘woman’s best dowry is her virginity’ talk

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The Dowry of Virgins & Other Stories - Kindle edition by Ophelia S. Lewis. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The Dowry of Virgins: and other stories [Ophelia S. Lewis] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. In this collection of seven imaginative short.

Le Guin , first published in March, by HarperCollins. All of the stories, except " Paradises Lost ", were previously published individually elsewhere.

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The collection was also published in London by Gollancz , an imprint of the Orion Group, in A softcover edition was published by Perennial in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources.

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The Dowry of Virgins and Other Stories

Le Guin Beyond Genre: Fiction for Children and Adults 1st ed. This beautiful limestone capital tells the story of Saint Nicholas and the dowry for the three virgins.

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According to legend, there was a devout but poor man who had three daughters. He could not afford dowries for them with the consequence that they would all remain unmarried and may have had to turn to prostitution in order to survive. Hearing of their plight, Saint Nicholas decided to provide the dowries himself.

In order to save the father the humiliation of having to accept charity and to preserve his honour, Saint Nicholas assisted him secretly. In the scene depicted, the despondent poor man sits on a chair on the left side, his three daughters grouped in front of him, one kneeling with her hands in prayer.

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Behind them is a wall with an open window through which the hidden Saint Nicholas, recognisable by his halo, passes a bag of money. One version of the legend tells of Saint Nicholas throwing one purse through a tower window over three consecutive nights — and on the left hand side of our capital can be seen a barred window.

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Another version has him throwing the purses over a period of three years, each time the night before one of the daughters comes of age. In yet another version, the dowries are dropped down the chimney, the source of the Christmas tale that Saint Nicholas or Santa Claus travels down the chimney to deposit gifts.