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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Work title:
"The History of Nourjahad."
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Metaphor Category:
"Fire"
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Date: 1767
"A holy ardor was kindled in his breast, which he had never felt before; he found his faculties enlarged, his mind was transported above this world; he felt as it were unimbodied, and an involuntary adjuration burst from his lips."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1767
"I was now resolved to be myself an eye-witness of thy behaviour, and to try if there was any spark of virtue remaining in thy soul which could possibly be rekindled."
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)