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Religion of Author:
"Anglican"
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Metaphor Category:
"Container"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Date: 1762
"We might spend our time in going from place to place, where none wish to see us except they find a deficiency at the card table, perpetually living among those, whose vacant minds are ever seeking after pleasures foreign to their own tastes, and pursue joys which vanish as soon as possessed."
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1777
"She passed the night without rest; the ideas of coaches, coronets, titles, filled her mind, and effectually murdered sleep."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)