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Title: By a lady
Author: Johnson, Esther;, i.e. Stella ?
Attribution: A lady
Date(s): 1724 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 9
Contents: Request that as her beauty diminishes her mind should improve
Sender: Northampton (Compton), Lady
Recipient: Sitwell, Lady
Letters: 1
Date(s): n.d.
Location: BC Egerton Leigh: Royalty and Ladies Autographs, p.77
Category: Female
Sender: Thornycroft, Agatha, Lady
Recipient: Gosse, Ellen, Lady
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Oct 1883
Location: BC Gosse correspondence.
Category: 19c2 Female
Note: Not in printed catalogue. Not found 07/01/99.
Sender: Gosse, Ellen, Lady
Recipient: Thornycroft, Agatha, Lady
Letters: 1
Date(s): 16 Oct 1883
Location: BC Gosse correspondence. In LADY ELLEN GOSSE box
Note: Not in printed catalogue.
Title: The lady and the butterfly
Author: Warkhouse, Thomas; [see Venn]
Attribution: T. Warkhouse; [French]
Date(s): 173- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Tale in which a vain young woman is frightened by a caterpillar who tells her
it will surpass her in beauty when a butterfly, and points out the similarity
between them. Followed on f.13v by a French version (the probable source)
headed "La femme et la ch
Title: Advice to a lady
Author: Lyttleton, George; 1st Baron
Attribution: Mr Littleton; G.Littleton [at end]
Date(s): 1731 [Dodsley, "Collection of Poems", 1766, II.41]
Manuscript: Lt q 20
Contents: Advice to a young woman not to be preoccupied with her physical beauty but to
cultivate a virtuous and serene mind and behaviour, unambitious and domestic,
in which love is central. Abridged and slightly altered text.
Title: The cautious lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 169- ?
Manuscript: Lt 79
Contents: Advice to women to be cautious in encouraging or granting sexual
favours to men for fear of losing their power over them. Cf.the
following poem, BCMSV 2485.
Title: Of a lady in the snow
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: On how the woman's resistance to her lovers' addresses, including Jove's, effects transformations by provoking tears and turning them to ice
Title: To a lady. In the country.
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 170- ?
Manuscript: Lt 52
Contents: Argues that a woman's beauty is public property and should be displayed in the town or city rather than hidden in the country as her husband would wish
Title: On a lady frowning
Author: Forrest, Theodosius
Attribution: T.F. (title page)
Date(s): 174- ?
Manuscript: Lt 64
Contents: Comparing a lady's frown to clouded skies
Title: Character of a lady
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 17-- ?
Manuscript: Lt q 51
Contents: On the admirable qualities of a woman's character
Name: Morrison, Lady
Reference: Carlton Hill S 2
Meeting: Leeds, Great Wilson Street Meeting, Minute book, 1909-1921
Pages: 53