Date: 1747
"Since here defective, Heaven be so kind / With never-fading charms to dress my mind"
preview | full record— Teft, Elizabeth (fl. 1741-7)
Date: October 20, 1752
It is bad manners for Richardson's heroines to "declare all they think [since] fig leaves are necessary for our minds as our bodies."
preview | full record— Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley [née Lady Mary Pierrepont] (1689-1762)