Women of Letters
Book digitized by Google from the library of University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. "The following papers, revised and reprinted--with, in some cases, considerable additions--from Temple bar (1887-1896) ... aim ... only to give some idea of the lives and characters of the women themselves, mainly in their own words, supplemented by the recollections of their contemporaries."--Pref. note v. 1. Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle: "Lamb's Duchess." Mary, Countess Cow
...per. Lady Hervey: the home life of a court lady. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Mrs. Delany: "Queen Charlotte's friend." Mrs. Montagu: "The queen of the blue stockings". Lady Anne Barnard: the authoress of "Auld Robin Gray." Mary and Agnes Berry: Horace Walpole's twin "wives."--v. 2. Elizabeth Inchbald. Amelia Opie. Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan. Miss Mitford. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Lady Duff Gordon
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