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Index:
INDEX/BCMSV/2602

182- ?

Religious poem on the progress of human life from birth to death,

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INDEX/BCMSV/3592

1840 (published)

Reminiscence of receiving either presents or punishment when a child in the nursery, according to either good or naughty behaviour

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INDEX/BCMSV/3593

185- ?

In praise of the freedom and pleasures of the life of a spinster or unmarried woman. Cf. BCMSV 3594.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3594

185- ?

Lament for the loneliness of a bachelor or unmarried man, ending with a resolution to marry. Cf. BCMSV 3593.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3595

185- ?

On love letters kept, some worn with frequent reading, others marked by tears, but all precious for the memories they evoke

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INDEX/BCMSV/3596

1820 (published)

Meditation on the progress of the soul after death, asserting the necessity of heaven and a desire to join the dead rather than recall them. An abridged text

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INDEX/BCMSV/3597

185- ?

On the transformation occasioned in a home or household by the death of a wife, newly married

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INDEX/BCMSV/3598

185- ?

Listing things which make life worth living, including loved ones, religious faith, desire to imitate the great men of history, reason, nature, and desire to do good

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INDEX/BCMSV/3599

185- ?

Detailing the marriageable qualities of a man (XYZ) of average needs and characteristics, in the form of an mock advertisement to attract a wife. Cf. BCMSV 3600, 3601.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3600

185- ?

Answer to the mock marriage advertisement of BCMSV 3599, suggesting a possible wife (OPQ) for the man concerned (XYZ), and describing her character. Cf. also BCMSV 3601.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3601

185- ?

Response to BCMSV 3600 in which XYZ accepts OPQ as a possible wife, subject to her answers to some questions, and expressing concern that she may be a bluestocking. See the mock marriage advertisement in BCMSV 3599.

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INDEX/BCMSV/3950

1816 ?

Elegiac lament on the death of Mrs Jordan, mistress of the Duke of Clarence, expressing grief