"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
by L. Adams Beck
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About this eBook
- Author
- Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams), 1862-1931
- Credits
- Produced by Curtis A. Weyant and The Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Women -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 8434
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8434
- Release Date
- July 1, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1."The Ladies"
- 2.A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty — E. Barrington — Illustrated with Portraits — Preface — Table of Contents — Illustrations — Elizabeth Pepys
- 3.1640-1669
- 4.I — The Diurnal of Mrs. Elizabeth Pepys — Esther Johnson
- 5.1681-1728
- 6.II — The Mystery of Stella — Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- 7.1689-1762
- 8.III — My Lady Mary — Maria Gunning
- 9.1733-1760 — Elizabeth Gunning
- 10.1734-1790
- 11.IV — The Golden Vanity — A Story of the First Irish Beauties The Gunnings — Maria Walpole
- 12.17(?)-1807
- 13.V — The Walpole Beauty — Fanny Bueney
- 14.1752-1840
- 15.VI — A Bluestocking at Court — Elizabeth Bennet
- 16.VII — The Darcys of Rosings
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