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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.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1804 Eccentr
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Biography.
- Women.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Biography--Dictionaries.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Physical Description:
- 338 [6] p. ; 16 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Worcester [Mass.] : Printed by Isaiah Thomas, jun. ; sold by him and Thomas & Whipple, Newburyport, 1804.
- Contents:
- Alice
- Arc, Joan of
- Arlotta
- Aspasia
- Astell, Mary
- Baker, Polly
- Barre, Madame du
- Barton, Elizabeth
- Behn, Mrs. Aphra
- Boadicia
- Bown, Phebe
- Bellamy, George Anne
- Berners, Juliana
- Bowes, Mary Eleanor
- Cameron, Mary
- Catherina, Countess Dowager of
- Catherine I, Empress of Russia
- Catherine II, Empress of Russia
- Catley, Anne
- Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna
- Chandler, Mrs. Mary
- Charce, Mademoiselle de la
- Charke, Charlotte
- Christina, Queen of Sweden
- Cibber, Susanna Maria
- Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt
- Clive, Catherine
- Cockburn, Catherine
- Corbet, Mrs.
- Corde, Marie Anne Victorie Charlotte
- Cornelly, Mrs.
- Cunitia, Maria
- Dalby, Mrs. Eliza
- Day, Anne
- D'Eon, Chevalier de
- Desmond, Countess of
- Dillon, Hon. Mrs. C.
- Ephesus, Widow of
- Eusebia, Abbess of St. Savior at Marseilles
- Fisher, Mary
- Frith, Mary
- Fulvia, the wife of Mark Anthony
- Goddard, Mrs. M.A.
- Godfrey, Hon. Mrs.
- Godiva, Lady
- Godwin, Mrs. Wollstonecraft
- Grierson, Constantia
- Hamilton, Mrs.
- Heloise
- Hendia
- Houliéres, Madame des
- Huntingdon, Selina Countess of
- Hutton, Charlotte
- Jennings, Sarah
- Kaufman, Mrs. Angelica
- Kingston, Dutchess of
- Lais
- Lamburne, Margaret
- Lane, Jane
- L'Enclos, Ninon de
- Levy, Mrs.
- Lloyd, Mrs.
- Louisa
- Lucretia
- Macdaniel, Nanny
- Macarny, Susannah
- Maintenon, Madame de
- Martial, Henrietta
- Mary, Queen of Scots
- Maupin, La
- Medicis, Catharine de
- Montague, Mrs.
- Palmer, Mrs. Sarah
- Pilkington,l Laetitia
- Pompadour, Marchioness de
- Porter, Mrs.
- Richmond, Dutchess of
- Robertson, Miss
- Robinson, Mrs.
- Rowland, Madame
- Rudd, Mary Catherine
- Ryves, Eliza
- Shore, Jane
- Simms, Anne
- Snell, Hannah
- Sorrell, Agnes
- Squires, Mary
- St. Balmont, Countess de
- Talbot, Miss
- Toft, Mary
- Valliere, Madame de la
- Vassent, Catherine
- Verdion, Chevalier J. Theodora de
- Watson, Elspet
- Williams, Mrs.
- Wilkinson, Jemima.
- Notes:
- "New publications. ... from the press of Isaiah Thomas, Jun. ..."--P. [339-344].
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Breck bequest.
- Cited in:
- Shaw/Shoemaker 6217
- OCLC:
- 1863041
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