"SHE HAD A SWORD IN HER LAP AS SHE SAT DOWN" / MADAME BUTTERFLY (SHORT STORY) / PUBLICATION HISTORY 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly_(short_story)#/media/File:Madame_Butterfly_1903_ill8.jpg 

With a sword in her lap, Cho-Cho-San prepares to take her own life.

C. Yarnall Abbott - http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/LONG/images001.html (Next Illustration link)

"She had a sword in her lap as she sat down"  

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Butterfly_(short_story) 

"Madame Butterfly" is a short story by American lawyer and writer John Luther Long. It is based on the recollections of Long's sister, Jennie Correll, who had been to Japan with her husband, a Methodist missionary. It was first published in Century Magazine in 1898 and adapted for the stage in 1900. Giacomo Puccini based his 1904 opera Madama Butterfly on the play. 

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Publication history

Long's story was an instant success. Just 10 months after it appeared in print, The Century Company rushed a book version to market.[2] Appearing in October 1898, the book included several other Long stories, and began selling "like hot cakes".[1] In 1903, Century reissued the book with several tinted photographs by C. Yarnall Abbott.[7] 

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