Date: 1791, 1794
"For Charlotte, the soul melts with sympathy; for La Rue, it feels nothing but horror and contempt."
preview | full record— Rowson, Susanna (1762-1828)
Date: 1794
"Whenever my mind has been more than usually depressed I have come to pour forth its sorrows to you, and have always found consolation; and, when any little occurrence has interested my heart, and given a gleam of joy to my spirits, I have hastened to communicate it to you, and have received refl...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1796
"Leonella was not inflexible; the ardour of his sighs melted her heart, and she soon consented to make him the happiest of mankind."
preview | full record— Lewis, Matthew Gregory (1775-1818)
Date: 1797
"She feared to think, and still more to name it; yet, so acutely susceptible was her pride, so stern her indignation, and so profound her desire of vengeance, that her mind was tossed as on a tempestuous ocean, and these terrible feelings threatened to overwhelm the residue of humanity in her hea...
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)
Date: 1797
""But returning passion, like a wave that has recoiled from the shore, afterwards came with recollected energy, and swept from her feeble mind the barriers which reason and conscience had begun to rear."
preview | full record— Radcliffe [née Ward], Ann (1764-1823)