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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... took the veil at the age of thirty - three . Having distin- guished herself by her admirable management of the monastery of Hartlepool , she proceeded to build the monastery of Whitby , in the North Riding of Yorkshire , and to regulate ...
... took the veil at the age of thirty - three . Having distin- guished herself by her admirable management of the monastery of Hartlepool , she proceeded to build the monastery of Whitby , in the North Riding of Yorkshire , and to regulate ...
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... took an active part in the proceedings , and received an especial injunction from the king , by their good precepts and example to instruct and advise their sections of the community . Osburga , the wife of King Ethelwulf , is described ...
... took an active part in the proceedings , and received an especial injunction from the king , by their good precepts and example to instruct and advise their sections of the community . Osburga , the wife of King Ethelwulf , is described ...
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... took good care both of her heart and her reputation . After the death of King Louis , and the return of his young widow to England as the Duke of Suffolk's bride , Anne Boleyn reappears as a member of the household of Queen Claude , the ...
... took good care both of her heart and her reputation . After the death of King Louis , and the return of his young widow to England as the Duke of Suffolk's bride , Anne Boleyn reappears as a member of the household of Queen Claude , the ...
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... took up her abode at the new manor - house which he had built there , on a site a little to the eastward of the ground on which some years afterwards stood Winchester Palace . In the course of a few weeks after King Henry's death Queen ...
... took up her abode at the new manor - house which he had built there , on a site a little to the eastward of the ground on which some years afterwards stood Winchester Palace . In the course of a few weeks after King Henry's death Queen ...
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... the Protestants . Dis- turbances consequently took place in several counties . Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger and other men of in- fluence conspiring to raise the people , induced the Duke E 2 LITERARY WOMEN OF ENGLAND . 51.
... the Protestants . Dis- turbances consequently took place in several counties . Sir Thomas Wyatt the younger and other men of in- fluence conspiring to raise the people , induced the Duke E 2 LITERARY WOMEN OF ENGLAND . 51.
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