Date: 1686
"And so dost think to fill the Abiss below / Quite full of Females, hoping there may be / No room for souls big with Vice as thee."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1686
"By any other hand: She's all divine, / And by a splendid lustre doth outshine / All masculine souls, who only seem to be / Made up of pride and their lov'd luxury."
preview | full record— Egerton [née Fyge; other married name Field], Sarah (1670-1723)
Date: 1688
"Each character performs its noble part, / And stamps its Image on the Readers heart"
preview | full record— Behn, Aphra (1640?-1689)
Date: 1688
"Here's Cavities, says one; and here, says he, / Is th' Seat of Fancy, Judgment, Memory: / Here, says another, is the fertile Womb, / From whence the Spirits Animal do come, / Which are mysteriously ingender'd here, / Of Spirits from Arterious Blood and Air: / Here, said a third, Life made her fi...
preview | full record— Barker, Jane (1675-1743)