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24 images from works
  • Dr. Worthington's "Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine" : the great animal puzzle.
  • The purple island, or the isle of man: together with Piscatorie eclogs and other poeticall miscellanies / By P.F.
  • Les obus de Choumara / P. Lachambeaudie.
  • The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe : with his letters and journals, and his life, by his son.
  • Dr. Worthington's "Cholera and Diarrhoea Medicine" : the great animal puzzle.
  • The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe : with his letters and journals, and his life, by his son.
  • Mary Ray.
  • In aid of the wounded women and girls who are in hospital : it was on the fifth of December, they'll never forget that night.
  • [Leaflet with a poem about General Mite and Millie Edwards : 'Midgets at home', advertising the Royal American Midgets:  General Mite, his father, E.F. Flynn and Miss Millie Edwards at the Piccadilly Hall, London (December 1882)].
  • [Leaflet bearing Field Marshal Tom Thumb's poetical address to the ladies].
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Works from the collections

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    Le conqu�erant d'Ecosse, po�eme

    | Date: 1745
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    The lady and the linnet . A tale.

    | Date: MDCCXLI. [1741]
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    E---h's instructions to their member

    | Date: MDCCXXXIX. [1739]
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    Poems and translations with The sophy, a tragedy. Written by the Honourable Sir John Denham, Knight of the Bath.

    Denham, John, Sir, 1615-1669. | Date: M,DCC,LXIX. [1769]
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    An elegy on the much lamented death of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield, minister of the gospel, who died at his house, Morefields [sic], London, on the 28th of March, 1761

    | Date: 1761]
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English poetry - 18th century
Epistolary poetry, English - Early works to 1800
Women
History, 20th Century
Feminism and the arts
Elegiac poetry, English - Early works to 1800
United States
Women prisoners
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