Citizeness

On Sundays and holidays the citizens trooped down, on visiting bent, and the lonely officer on duty solaced himself by playing the cicerone - especially to the citizenesses with engaging manners and a well-developed sense of the fun that may be got out of the inspection of a ship's cabins and state-rooms.

In the preface to the 1860 volume Poems before Congress, which contains "A Curse for a Nation," EBB, a self-proclaimed "citizeness of the world," reconceptualizes transnational thinking as well as the concept of patriotism, encouraging her readers to adopt a more transnational consciousness.