Stories
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The meanings of hurt
In the early modern period, gruesome incidents of self-castration and other types of self-injury garnished the literature of the time. Alanna Skuse explores the messages these wounds conveyed.
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The poor child’s nurse
Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.
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A godly ballad declaring by the Scriptures the plagues that haue insued whordome.
A. I., active 1566Date: Anno Domini 1566. Nouembris. 25. [1566]- Books
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A right godly and Christian A.B.C. shewing the duty of every degree : To the tune of Rogero.
Date: [1625]- Books
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A marvelous medicine to cure a great pain, if a maiden-head be lost to get it again.
Date: 1664?]- Books
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A godly song, entituled, A farewell to the vvorld, made by a godly Christian, named Thomas Byll, being the parish clerke of West-Felton, as he lay vpon his death-bed shewing the vanitie of the world, and his desire to be dissolued. To the tune of, Fortune my foe.
Byll, ThomasDate: [1630?]- Books
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The confession of a pænitent sinner : To the tune of, O man in desperation: or, Some men for suddaine joyes doe weepe.
Date: [1635?]