<Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> April 1855 </Td> </Tr> <P> "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids" is a short story written by American writer Herman Melville . It first appeared in the April 1855 edition of Harper's Magazine . A combination of two sketches, one set in the center of London's legal industry and the other in a New England paper factory, this story can be read as an early comment on globalization . </P> <P> In the first sketch, the London bachelors, all lawyers, scholars, or writers, enjoy a sumptuous meal in a cozy apartment near the Temple Bar . In the second sketch, the New England "maids" are young women working in a paper factory . </P> <P> Melville was inspired to write "The Paradise of Bachelors" by a trip to the Inns of Court in December 1849 . "The Tartarus of Maids" was inspired by his visit to Carson's Old Red Paper Mill in Dalton, Massachusetts in January, 1851 . </P>

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