Eccentric biography; or, Memoirs of remarkable female characters, ancient and modern. : Including, actresses, adventurers, authoresses, fortunetellers, gipsies, dwarfs, swindlers and vagrants. : Also many others who have distinguished themselves by their chastity, dissipation, intrepidity, learning, abstinence, credulity, &c. &c. : Alphabetically arranged. Forming a pleasing mirror of reflection to the female mind.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 6217.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Biography--Dictionaries.

Women.

Women--Biography.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-338 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 16 cm

Other Title:

Memoirs of remarkable female characters, ancient and modern.

Place of Publication:

Worcester [Mass.]: : Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Jun: sold by him and Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport., April--1804.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Plates engraved by Mackenzie and J. Chapman; that of Mrs. Bellamy is from a portrait by Ramberg.

"New publications. ... from the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. ..."--p. [339-344].

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