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The Minister's Daughter
the daughter
The unnamed protagonist of "The Lady Jurist" -- a European minister of justice's daughter who drafts his bills and escalates her demands for punitive taxes and prison terms on bachelors at each successive birthday, only to reverse into self-interested bribery at 40.
Reading notes
- The Lady Jurist §1 The daughter
The story's unnamed protagonist -- the titular "lady jurist" -- who drafts her father's bills and escalates her demands for punitive bachelor taxes at each successive birthday, a comic portrait of unchecked legislative zeal.