Eccentric Biography; or, Memoirs of Remarkable Female Characters, Ancient and Modern. Including Actresses, Adventurers, Authoresses, Fortune-Tellers, Gipsies, Dwarfs, Swindlers and Vagrants: Also Many Others who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Chastity, Dissipation, Intrepidity, Learning, Abs

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797

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Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. After two ill-fated affairs, with Henry Fuseli and Gilbert Imlay (by whom she had a daughter, Fanny Imlay), Wollstonecraft married the philosopher William Godwin, one of the forefathers of the anarchist movement. Wollstonecraft died at the age of 38, eleven days after giving birth to her second daughter, leaving behind several unfinished manuscripts. This daughter, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, became an accomp...

Madame Du Barry

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Maupin, Mademoiselle, 1670-1707

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Ninon de l'Enclos, Anne

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Catherine the Great, 1729-1796

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Catherine I, Empress of Russia, 1684-1727

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Wife of Peter the Great; Empress 1725-1727. From the description of Autograph signature to letter : St. Petersburg, to the Duke of Blankenburg, 1727 Jan. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270134567 ...

Marlborough, Sarah Jennings Churchill, Duchess of, 1660-1744

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Bristol, Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of, 1720-1788

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Elizabeth Chudleigh (c.1720-1788), courtier and bigamist, was the younger daughter and youngest child of Colonel Thomas Chudleigh (c.1688-1726), lieutenant-governor of Chelsea Hospital, and Henrietta Chudleigh (d. 1756) of Chalmington, Dorset. Her grandmother had been the author Mary Chudleigh. On August 4, 1744, Elizabeth secretly married Lieutenant the Hon. Augustus John Hervey RN (1724-1779). In 1768 Hervey, eager to marry another, pressed Elizabeth for a divorce and the case was brought to t...

Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689

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Aphra Behn, playwright. From the description of The rover: typescript, 1994. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 144652515 English author and spy. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to Abigail, daughter-in-law of Edmund Waller, [after 1687 Oct. 21]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270623324 ...

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, d. 30 B.C.

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Alice, ca. 1686-1802

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