The Distressed lady: or, The Yorkshire beauty. [electronic resource] : Made happy. A faithful and true story; Shewing how a young lady came up to London to seek her fortune, and how she fell in love with a gentleman who wanted to debauch her, but it pleased divine providence to make her too powerful for him; the gentleman then went out of his senses, and after the young lady had gone through a multiplicity of misfortunes, and aggravated by the ties of virtue and honour had an immense estate left her, and her sincere love, and his honour were at last happily crown'd by marrying the gentleman, of whose great abilities she at the beginning of their first interview had a great reason to doubt. By this we see the unsearchable wisdom of God Almighty. To which is added, Ovid's art of beauty.
1790
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The Distressed lady: or, The Yorkshire beauty. [electronic resource] : Made happy. A faithful and true story; Shewing how a young lady came up to London to seek her fortune, and how she fell in love with a gentleman who wanted to debauch her, but it pleased divine providence to make her too powerful for him; the gentleman then went out of his senses, and after the young lady had gone through a multiplicity of misfortunes, and aggravated by the ties of virtue and honour had an immense estate left her, and her sincere love, and his honour were at last happily crown'd by marrying the gentleman, of whose great abilities she at the beginning of their first interview had a great reason to doubt. By this we see the unsearchable wisdom of God Almighty. To which is added, Ovid's art of beauty.
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Distressed lady, or, Yorkshire beauty made happy.
De medicamine faciei feminae. English.
De medicamine faciei feminae. English.
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London : Printed for the author, and sold by T. Sabine, (No. 17) in Little New Street, Shoe Lane, Fleet Street, [1790?]
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Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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24,9-16p. ; 12⁰.
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The distressed lady = Anne Normington, afterward Lewin.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
Reproduction of original from Trinity College Library Watkinson Collection.
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English Short Title Catalog, N8902.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.
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