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Nationality of Author:
"English"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"The History of Emily Montague"
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Metaphor Category:
"Impressions"
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Date: 1769
"If my ideas of things are right, the human mind is naturally virtuous; the business of education is therefore less to give us good impressions, which we have from nature, than to guard us against bad ones, which are generally acquired."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)