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From the journals Metcalfe has surmised that Vivien, herself a brilliant literary scholar and teacher, had willfully lived out her marriage under Blundy’s shadow, the dutiful handmaiden to a literary eminence.

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For more than three decades after its creation in 1913, the Fed was largely a handmaiden of the U.S.

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These debates, especially if witnessed by younger women who haven't fully made up their minds about their political identities, help to instill a sense that being a handmaiden of patriarchy is cringeworthy.

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The deeper truth is this: education is not the handmaiden of politics — it is its lifeblood.

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Above all else, Trump is here to be the handmaiden for a whole new era of scamminess.

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