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Women Poets of the Romantic Period
Individual Item Contents: WPRP 103

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Author

Barbauld, Mrs. Anna Laetitia (1743-1825)

Title

A Legacy for young ladies, consisting of miscellaneous pieces, in prose and verse.

Imprint

Boston : David Reed, 1826.

Call number

WPRP 103.

Notes

Gift of Edward and June Sampson.

Notes

Contains Preface

Epigraph

none

Contents

True Magicians	1
A Lecture on the Use of Words	10
The Pine and the Olive: a Fable	13
On Riddles	15
The King in his Castle	20
On Female Studies	24
The Rich and the Poor: a Dialogue	33
Description of a curious Animal lately found in the Wilds of Derbyshire	40
On the Classics	42
Letter of a Young King	54
Verses written in the Leaves of an Ivory Pocket-book, presented to master T*****	59
On Plants	61
On a Portrait of a Lady and Two Children	64
Earth	65
On the Uses of History
Letter I	68
Letter II	73
Letter III	79
Letter IV	85
Fashion: a Vision	94
To Miss D****	102
On the Birth of a Friend’s eldest Son	103
Epitaph on a Goldfinch	105
The Morning Repast	106
Description of Two Sisters	107
A Character	109
Pic-nic	110
Letter from Grimalkin to Selima	113
Petition of a Schoolboy to his Father	117
The River and the Brook: a Fable	120
The Lament: a Ballad	121
Allegory on Sleep	123
To *******, occasioned by his Poem on the Sun	127
A Hymn	128
On Friendship	130
Confidence and Modesty: a Fable	135
The Death-bed	137
A Dialogue of the Dead, between Helen, and Madame Maintenon	139
A Riddle	144
On Expense	145



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