According to John Keats's biography,
You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, she was a late, unexpected arrival in a loveless family, from which a stepmother, another Scottish Presbyterian, sent her to a Catholic convent school in order to save her soul from the curse of being a Jew's daughter.
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