Women - Biography - Early works to 1800
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The female orators: or the courage and constancy of divers famous women, Set forth in their Undaunted Defences and Noble Resolutions, in Preservation of their Virtue and Liberty. Worthy the Perusal and Imitation of the Fair Sex. English'd from the French edition of Monsieur de Scudery
Scud�ery, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.Date: M.DCCLXVIII. [1768]- E-books
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Memoirs of eminently pious women : who were ornaments to their sex, blessings to their families, and edifying examples to the church and world / by Thomas Gibbons.
Gibbons, Thomas, 1720-1785.Date: 1777- E-books
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The fair sex vindicated , from folly and extravagance. An essay. By the Rev. James Penn, Vicar of Clavering, Essex, Domestic Chaplain to Earl Gower, and Lecturer of St. Ann's Aldersgate.
Penn, James, 1727-1800.Date: MDCCLXIX. [1769]- E-books
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The history of female favourites . Of Mary de Padilla, under Peter the Cruel, King of Castile; Livia, under the Emperor Augustus; Julia Farnesa, under Pope Alexander the Sixth; Agnes Soreau, under Charles Vii. King of France; and Nantilda, under Dagobert, King of France.
La Roche-Guihen, Anne de.Date: M.DCC.LXXII. [1772]