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Grace Norton [Gethin] and Frances (Freke) Norton Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Two, Volume 9
By Bernadette Andrea
Copyright 2003
584 Pages
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Routledge
584 Pages
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Routledge
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This facsimile edition features the intimately related writings of a mother, Lady Frances Norton (1640-1731), and her daughter, Lady Grace Gethin (1676-97). The posthumous publication of Gethin's collection of essays Misery's Virtues Whet-Stone (1699) was sponsored by her mother; subsequently Norton invoked her maternal grief as the grounds for publishing her own essay collection The Applause of... Read more
Contents: Preface by the general editors; Introductory note; Lady Grace Norton (Gethin) (1676-97): Misery's virtues whet-stone. Reliquiae Gethinianae, or, Some remains of the most ingenious and excellent lady, the Lady Grace Gethin, lately deceased (1699); Lady Frances (Freke) Norton (1640-1731): The Applause of Virtue, in four parts. Book I: Consisting of several divine and moral essays towards the obtaining of true virtue. Memento Mori. Book II: Consisting of meditations on death. By the Lady Norton (1705); A Miscellany of Poems, compos'd and work'd with a needle, on the backs and seats & c. of several chairs and stools (1714).
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Bernadette Andrea
