title: wedding ring and keeper.

object category: jewellery, rings. [1]

in the tender days, when a woman has only just dipped her toe into her twenties- Rosa Alridge- oh what innocence, all heavy-corset drawn and succulent-faced and moon-eyed, her bowed cupids lip; immeasurable originality, but blushing self-belief, still. /I believe in the mother-type of woman- not a whore-type- rootedly brave and confident- at one with the stir of the universe*[2]**/* altho she fantasizes: a beastly, animalistic presence, someone larger than her. and she will find a man of her own someday, a whisky-scented, respectable, strong, masculine man, really,

[1] ‘Decorative Arts & Furniture’ Collection, Grainger Museum

[2] Gillies, M, Pear, D. Carroll, M. ‘Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger’, 2006. p. 54.