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Genre:
"Letter"
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"Prose"
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Work title:
"Letters Written in France, in the Summer of 1790"
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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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"French Revolution"
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"Industrial Revolution"
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"Romantic"
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Metaphor Category:
"Dress"
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Date: 1790, 1794
"Their turn of expression is a dress that hangs so gracefully on gay ideas, that you are apt to suppose that wit, a quality parsimoniously distributed in other countries, is in France as common as the gift of speech."
preview | full record— Williams, Helen Maria (1759-1827)