A biographical dictionary of the celebrated women of every age and country WORK England
| Title | A biographical dictionary of the celebrated women of every age and country |
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| Is same as work | A biographical dictionary of the celebrated women of every age and country |
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| Author | Mary Matilda Betham |
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| Place | England |
| Date | 1804 |
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| Type | WORK |
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| Notes | ['Published in London.\n\nMentions in foreword as source of inspiration "Le Dictionnaire des Femmes Célèbres" [by whom?], which was published while she was preparing the compilation. Copies some biographies from this Dictionnaire, with mention of F.C.\n\njdgTest16: One Compilation, multiple receptions (instead of creating "double" records of this compilation, one per each reception.\n-----\nBetween [] is source mentions below each lemma by the author:\n\np.2 Catherine Fieschi Adorni [F.C.]:\n"Author of two books of great repute, one on Purgatory, and the other, A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body [...]." Says about her religious ecstacies: "uncertain health, and a too lively imagination, may easily account for what then appeared miraculous."\n\np.3 Cornelia Adrichomia [Female Worthies, &c.]:\n"She distinguished herself by her talent for poetry"\n\npp.4-5 Maria Gaetana Agnezi [Observations sur l\'Italie]:\n"A Celebrated female mathematician [etc.] famed for her knowledge of the scholastic languages [...]" Mentions a.o. her professorship, and that a translation of her "Analytical Institutions" is speedily to be published.\n\npp.5-6 Mary de Agreda [F.C.]:\n"She supposed herself commanded and inspired by God, to write the History of the Virgin Mary" Said to have burned manuscript after request, and rewritten later. Work ("With all their strange and wild conceits [disturbing] for a long time, the peace of three kingdoms, Spain, France, and Italy.")published in Madrid, "Lisbon, at Perpignan, and at Antwerp" though the works were later condemned.\n\n[etc.] Other female authors mentioned:\n- Donna Almucs (French poet)\n- Maria Alphaizuli (Moors-Spanish poet)\n- Marseilles d\'Altouviti (Italian/French poet)\n- Donna Constantia D\'Avalos, Duchess d\'Amalfi (Italian poet)\n- Laura Battiferri Ammanati (Italian poet)\n- Isabella Andreini (Italian actress/poet)\n- Maria de la Antigua (Spanish nun)\n- Anyta (Greek poet)\n- Polla Argentaria (Latin poet patroness)\n- Arignote\n- [etc.]'] |
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| is biography of | Cornelia van Adrichem |
| is biography of | Maria Gaetana Agnesi |
| is biography of | Caterina Fieschi Adorni |
| is biography of | Sor Maria de Agreda |
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