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    Female excellency or, the ladies glory. Illustrated in the worthy lives and memorable actions of nine famous women, who have been Renowned either for Virtue or Valour, in several Ages of the World: Namely, I. Deborah, the Prophetess. II. The valiant Judith. III. Queen Esther. IV. The Virtuous Susanna. V. The Chaste Lucretia. VI. Voadica, Queen of Britain. Vii. Mariamne, Wife to K. Heord. Viii. Clotilda, Queen of France. IX. Andegona, Princess of Spain. The whole adorned with poems, and the picture of each lady. By Robert Burton.

    | Nathaniel Crouch | Date: 1728
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    Famous women of history

    | Date: 1920
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    The lives and amours of queens and royal mistresses, with some intrigues of popes, extracted from the histories of England, France, Turkey, Spain and Italy

    | Date: 1726
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    Off the rag : lesbians writing on menopause / edited by Lee Lynch and Akia Woods.

    | Date: [1996]
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    Women on the margins : three seventeenth-century lives / Natalie Zemon Davis.

    | Natalie Zemon Davis | Date: 1997
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