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Genre:
"Drama"
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Gender of Author:
"Female"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Work title:
"The Platonic Wife, a Comedy."
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Date: 1765
"By reason's standard, then, you judge amiss / Of those whose legislator is caprice."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"I fancy that blanks would do still better, as some authors have lately used them, merely to make up bulk, and stuff life's volume."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)
Date: 1765
"She vile, she artful! thou art a monster but to think it. Her mind and person are as pure as mountain-snow, which the sun's beams have never glanced upon."
preview | full record— Griffith, Elizabeth (1720-1793)