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The recluse: or, history of Lady Gertrude Lesby. In two volumes. Dedicated (by Permission) to her Grace the Duchess of Rutland. By Miss Esther Finglass. ...
Finglass, Esther.Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Edward and Harriet, or the happy recovery; a sentimental novel. In two volumes, by a lady. Dedicated by permission to her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire. ...
Lady.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Dr. Sacheverell's disappointment at Worcester. Being A True Account of his cold reception there. In a letter from A Gentleman in that City to his Friend in London.
Gentleman in That City.Date: 1710- Books
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The unfortunate union: or, the test of virtue. A story founded on facts, and calculated to promote the cause of virtue in younger minds. Written by a lady. ...
Lady.Date: MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]- Books
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The pratler. Containing part of near a thousand short essays and letters. Wrote in the service of the Right Honourable the Lord Hardwicke, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. To which are added, Some Observations offer'd to the Consideration of the impartially Judicious. By Edward Poston. He that loveth a Book, will never want a faithful Friend, a wholsome Counsellor, a chearful Companion, an effectual Comforter. Dr. Barrow. ...
Poston, Edward.Date: M.DCC.XLVII. [1747]- Books
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The wonder of wonders: or, A True and Perfect Narrative of a Woman near Guildford in Surrey, who was Delivered lately of Seventeen Rabbets, and Three Legs of a Tabby Cat, &c. In a Letter from a Gentleman at Guildford, to his Friend a Physician in Ipswich, Suffolk. With Remarks upon the same by Way of answer. To which is added, an Abstract of a Letter from Mr. Howard, who was the Man-Midwife that Deliver'd her.
Date: [1726]- Books
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The unnatural mother and ungrateful wife, a narrative: founded on true and very interesting facts. Contain'd in three letters, from a lady in the country to her friend, a Lady of Distinction in Town.
Date: [1735?]- Books
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The history of Miss Emilia Beville. In two volumes. ...
Date: 1768- Books
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The life of Miss Catlane; or, the ill effects of a hasty marriage. In a series of letters. Being a complete narrative of real characters. To which is added, an essay on false friendship; or Satan's eye tooth.
Date: 1788- Books
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The lawyer out-law'd, and the biter bit: or, a pretty girl, if she has discretion, may have the disposal of her own maidenhead. Containing an entertaining and diverting account of the tragicomical adventures of Mr. Goosequill solicitor in Chancery, and his intended son-in-law Councellor Puzzle-Cause, in their journey to the former's country seat. Under the following Heads: I. How Mr. Puzzle-Cause blundered upon a Life-Guard-Man's Toe, and got kick'd into the Thames for his Pains. II. How his fine Perruque, wherein his whole Merit consisted, was thereby lost, to his no small Mortification. III. How he purchased another at Feversham, which immediately met with a lamentable Disaster. IIII. Mr. Puzzle-Cause's Rage at this mischance, which occasions a Tragicomical Squabble between the Tall Councellor and the Pigmy Perruke-Maker. V. Which did not end to the Councellor's Advantage. VI. How the Solicitor and Councellor were both in great Agonies about defraying the Charges of an Entertainment. Vii. How a Bastard is laid to the Councellor, which entirely ruins him in the Opinion of his intended Father-in-Law. Viii. How at last, to the Councellor's utter Confusion, during the contest between him and the intended Father-in-Law, an unexpected Rival appears, and wipes his Nose of his Mistress.
Date: 1734- Books
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The shrine of Bertha: a novel, in a series of letters. In two volumes. By Miss M. E. Robinson. ...
Robinson, Mary Elizabeth, approximately 1775-1818.Date: M.DCC.XCIV. [1794]- Books
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The jilted bridegroom: or, London coquet, &c. Treating of a true intrigue betwixt a gentleman and gentlewoman of this City, within these twelve Months; with several letters that past between them: Sent in a Letter to a Friend in the Country.
Date: MDCCVI. [1706]- Books
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Copy of a letter to a lady, who was solicitous for an additional volume to the history of Sir Charles Grandison; supposing it ended abruptly; and expressing herself desirous to see Sir Charles's conduct and behaviour in the parental character; and to know if the story were intended to be carried further. ...
Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761.Date: 1754]- Books
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Eleonora. By M. Goethe, author of the Sorrows of Werter. To which is added a poetic epistle from Werter to Charlotte.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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The perjured lover; or, The history of Thomas Beaumont, an Oxford student; and Miss Lucia Bannister. With original letters found after the death of Lucia, in a box, in her apartment. To which is addded [sic], The true and impartial history of Daniel Jenkins and Hannah Grimes, A Farmer's Daughter of Diss, in Norfolk. Also, The generous husband; or, the amours of Arabella.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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To the Master and fellows of University College, in Oxford.
Davison, John, 1752?-1780.Date: 1772]- Books
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Bath-Intrigues. In four letters to a friend in London.
Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724.Date: 1725- Books
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Bath-Intrigues: in four letters to a friend in London.
Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724.Date: 1725- Books
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Camillo a novel. Calculated chiefly to expose vice and debauchery, and to espouse the lost interest of virtue and good sense. Written by R. H. AB. T.C.D.
R. H., A.B., T.C.D.Date: [1745?]- Books
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Court intrigues, in a collection of original letters, from the island of the New Atalantis, &c. By the author of those memoirs.
Manley, Delariviere, d. 1724.Date: 1711- Books
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A smooth stone polished into a mirror: or A congratulatory epistle to Rev. Mr. W. Willis, minister of the Gospel, Greenock, Alias Crawford's Dike. Occasioned by his letters to Messrs Lawson and Eraser.
Comrie, Patrick.Date: 1799- Books
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New memoirs establishing a true knowledge of mankind, by discovering the affections of the heart, and the operations of the understanding, In the various Scenes of Life: Being A Critical Inquiry into the Nature of Friendship and Happiness. And Essays on other Important Subjects. By the Marquis D'Argens, Lord of the Bed-Chamber to the King of Prussia, Director of his Royal Academy of Sciences, and Author of the Jewish Spy. Interspersed with letters from the Baron de Spon, the Emperor's Minister at Berlin; from a Member of the Royal Society at London, &c. And two novels, Spanish and French; Shewing the Tragical Effects of Jealousy; the dissembling Arts of Coquetry; and the unhappy State of the Comedian. With Thoughts on the art of beautifying the face. By Mademoiselle Cochois, The Favourite both of the Court, and the Theatre, of Berlin. In two volumes.
Argens, marquis d', 1704-1771.Date: MDCCXLVII. [1747]- Books
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Extract of a letter from an Irish gentlewoman in Dublin, to her daughter in London.
McFrame, Carney Cavanaugh.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Reflections on the vicissitudes of time. In a letter from a brother to his sister.
W. W.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- Books
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The history of Alicia Montague. By the author of Clarinda Cathcart. ...
Marshall, Jane, active 18th century.Date: 1767