Feb 092012
Editor’s Note:
The phrase “the great unwashed” was coined by Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873). I don’t know what he had in mind with that phrase, but it seems to fit most keepers’ (mostly joking) feelings about the general public fairly well. Particularly on free days!
Bulwer-Lytton is probably best known for the infamous opening to his novel Paul Clifford (1830) which begins, “It was a dark and stormy night…. “
He is also credited with first using the phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword.“