The Literary Women of England: Including a Biographical Epitome of All the Most Eminent to the Year 1700; and Sketches of the Poetesses to the Year 1850; with Extracts from Their Works, and Critical RemarksSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 564 pages |
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... literature , science , or art , where female genius has not distinctly asserted its supremacy , neither perhaps is there any , from poetry to mathematics , in which it has not already greatly distin- guished itself . This it has done ...
... literature , science , or art , where female genius has not distinctly asserted its supremacy , neither perhaps is there any , from poetry to mathematics , in which it has not already greatly distin- guished itself . This it has done ...
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... literature in England from the earliest period to the year 1700 , where the stream divides into several branches , and thence to trace the course of female poetry , the principal of those branches , down to the year 1850 . As a portrait ...
... literature in England from the earliest period to the year 1700 , where the stream divides into several branches , and thence to trace the course of female poetry , the principal of those branches , down to the year 1850 . As a portrait ...
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... Literature , ' the most complete series of extracts , with criticisms and brief biographical notices , in the language , includes authoresses as well as authors , but attempts no delineation of personal character . Craik's ' Sketches of ...
... Literature , ' the most complete series of extracts , with criticisms and brief biographical notices , in the language , includes authoresses as well as authors , but attempts no delineation of personal character . Craik's ' Sketches of ...
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... literature in the condensed or arranged lives and writings of literary Englishwomen from the Heptarchy to the year 1850. Nor do I know of one in which the poetesses of England have been compared among themselves . While our country has ...
... literature in the condensed or arranged lives and writings of literary Englishwomen from the Heptarchy to the year 1850. Nor do I know of one in which the poetesses of England have been compared among themselves . While our country has ...
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... literature , being educated from her infancy among the nuns at Wilton and Romsey . " + He mentions also her lavish generosity to " clerks of melo- dious voice , " and to trouveurs . Queen Matilda died in the year 1107 ; and in 1121 King ...
... literature , being educated from her infancy among the nuns at Wilton and Romsey . " + He mentions also her lavish generosity to " clerks of melo- dious voice , " and to trouveurs . Queen Matilda died in the year 1107 ; and in 1121 King ...
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