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This work explores Dr Johnson's relationships with six remarkable and successful female authors: Elizabeth Carter; Hannah More; Charlotte Lennox; Hester Thrale; Fanney Burney; and Elizabeth Montagu. These women's characters and achievements are also chronicled.

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She died in 1869.

The Rise and Fall of the Woman of Letters tells the remarkable but little-known story of women writers in the eighteenth century - of poets, critics, dramatists and scholars celebrated in their own time but all but forgotten by the beginning of the new century.

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Tom and his little brother are to be page boys. As if that weren't enough, they have to wear purple frilly shirts, shoes with silver buckles and white tights. A on top of that, they get burgled on the morning of the wedding. Surely nothing else could go wrong