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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Blanche Willis Howard

Born: July 21, 1847
Died: October 7, 1898 (aged 51)
Bio: Blanche Willis Howard was a best-selling American novelist who lived most of her productive years in southern Germany.
Known for:
- Tony, the maid (1887)
- Guenn; a wave on the Breton coast (1883)
- A fellowe and his wife (1892)
- Aunt Serena (1881)