title: From Righteous to Roguish: Tracking Queer Desire in Black Women's Writings 18501940
author: Lorna Raven Wheeler
description: Lorna Jane Raven Wheeler earned her PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2006. Currently, Dr. Wheeler is an Assistant Professor of English at South University Online.
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  # The Talkative Wig
  
  
  ### Eliza Lee Follen
  
  
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  "Pray, dear Mother," said the boys, "tell us what else you heard in
  
  
  the old garret."
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  "You know," said she, "it was on a rainy Sunday when my mother sent
  
  
  me up there with my book, Pilgrim's Progress. This book always
  
  
  delighted me, and set my fancy to work in some way or other.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  After reading a while, I began to look at the queer old things in
  
  
  the garret. Pussy began to purr louder and louder, and at last I
  
  
  fell again into the same dreamy sleep that I was in at first.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Presently I heard the same confused sound which I heard before when
  
  
  the old tenants of the garret began to speak. There seemed also to
  
  
  be a slight motion among them, and a sort of mysterious appearan