Virtue's Ermine and the Decay of Female Manners
A reflective critique of female education and virtue tracing how fashionable upbringing and parental flattery corrode modesty. It argues that early exposure to flattery and society leads girls toward worldly pleasures, diminishing private duties and virtue, with a vivid portrait of youth drawn toward public amusements and social display.
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Cervantes
Irs
Academy of Polite Literature
Flagmaker
Millener
Drifer
Controversial reflections on female virtue and public manners
A lengthy critique argues that licentious behavior among women threatens family and society, urging virtue, modesty, and exclusion from certain trades. It cites Athens and Agnodice to praise female agency within propriety, warns of prostitution’s rise, and ends with brief local anecdotes about fraud, bones found, and a shooting accident without further context.
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Twili
Greece
Athens
Agnodice
Athenias
Herophilus
Areopaguss
Greek Islands
Letter from America and a near Aberdeen report from 1787
A gentleman in America writes to a friend near Aberdeen in Boston dated Sept 22 1787 and describes fine country provisions and hospitality with unemployment for shipping. The note mentions royal succession talks and a local incident near Cranford bridge where armed assailants attempted to halt a rider. Also reported is the timely discovery of Lambs Forgery on the Bank and the fugitive’s exposure.
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America
Aberdeen
Boston
Newbery
Great Britain
de Veaux
Windsor
Cranford Bridge
Lamb
Cathcart elected to peerage at Holyrood Palace
At Holyrood Palace an election for one of the Sixteen Peers to replace the late Earl of Dalhousie. Earl of Dumfries and Lord Cathcart were the candidates. Lord Cathcart won by a majority of one, 28 to 27, with several protests. the matter may go before the House of Peers.
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Epingtogen
Fanie
Palace of Holyrood- House
Earl of
Hastings Fund Helps Windsor Families In Need
Last week many poor families at Old Windsor were relieved by the benevolence of Mr. and Mrs. Hastings. Several boys and girls received full clothing, as last year, and last Friday and Saturday distributing money to poor housekeepers followed, each funded according to circumstances and number of children.
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Lamb
Neglec
Messrs. Boldero and Co
Eighthelmstow
Newmarket
at_Horfhaimz
Linfur
Country News
Reavine
Old Windsor
Hastings
Cy Maft
D&c
England
Wales
Coggethall
The Last Shylock at Covent Garden Theatre Revival
The Shakespeare Club revival at Covent Garden Theatre presents the aging actor Macklin delivering an emotional appeal before the performance. A veteran singer Loveridge, aged 96, is noted as still performing on stage, marking a remarkable night of theatre with memory, endurance, and period charm.
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Covent-Garpen
Olpd Macklin
Macklin
Shakespeare Club
Bastith
Loveridge
Ung
Coventgarden Theatre
Sensibility and Indolence in a Cottage Night
A Victorian voice laments Sensibility while craving quiet shared with indolence in a low cottage. It rejects heightened feeling as a perpetual torment, seeking solace with a slower, plainer companionship and fearing the intrusion of memory and emotion.
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