18th Century Biographies of Women Owned by a Female Collector
Biographium faemineum. The Female Worthies: Or, Memoirs of the most illustrious ladies of all ages and nations who have been eminently distinguished for their magnanimity, learning, genius, virtue, piety, and other excellent endowments ... Containing (exclusive of foreigners) the lives of above fourscore British ladies ... Collected from history, and the most approved biographers, and brought down to the present time
First Edition. A well-known example of the popular 18th century British genre of collective biographies of women, with more than a hundred short entries on women dating back to ancient times. The subjects include Cleopatra; Sappho; the poet Anne Killigrew, described as "a great genius"; the painter and calligrapher Esther.....
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