Date: 1761
Faulkland has "steeled my husband's heart against me, heaped infamy on my head, and loaded my mother's age with sorrow and remorse"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1761
"If the unfortunate Mr. Arnold sees his error, can you be so unchristian as to endeavour at steeling his wife's heart against him?"
preview | full record— Sheridan [née Chamberlaine], Frances (1724-1766)
Date: 1762
"He therefore had been little used to any woman but his sober and sensible grand-mother's two cousins who were pretty enough, but had no great charms of understanding; a sister rather silly, and the incomparable Harriot, whose wit was as sound as her judgment solid and sterling, free from affecta...
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1766
"[I]t was a truth her reason could more easily perceive, than her heart feel, for it was steeled by habit"
preview | full record— Scott [née Robinson], Sarah (1720-1795)
Date: 1769
"To the arts of the libertine, however fair, my heart had always been steeled."
preview | full record— Brooke [née Moore], Frances (bap. 1724, d. 1789)
Date: 1777, 1780
"Every succeeding idea was happiness without allay; and his mind was not idle a moment till the morning sun awakened him."
preview | full record— Reeve, Clara (1729-1807)
Date: 1788
"The same warmth which determined her will make her repent; and sorrow, the rust of the mind, will never have a chance of being rubbed off by sensible conversation, or new-born affections of the heart."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
"In a state of bliss, it will be the society of beings we can love, without the alloy that earthly infirmities mix with our best affections, that will constitute great part of our happiness."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)
Date: 1788
""Ah! will you not there hear me? Will you still inhumanly smile; will you still look so gentle, while your heart is harder than the rocks we shall see--colder than the snow that crowns them!--an heart on which even the pen of fire which Rousseau held would make no impression!"
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)
Date: 1788
"But tho' she was immoveably determined against receiving him again as a lover, she had not been able to steel her heart against his melancholy appearance; his palid countenance, his ematiated form, extremely affected her."
preview | full record— Smith, Charlotte (1749-1806)