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s0042b27_Tragical.pdf
This chapbook provides a moral tale that advises young women to be wary of the promises of young men by describing the potential dangers of giving up one’s virtue before marriage. The story describes the courtship of the beautiful and virtuous Jane…

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A collection of ballads and songs, all featuring certain lords in Scotland. In the first, Sir John Graeme falls sick with love for Barbara Allan, but when she visits him, she rejects him due to a slight he had given her once. Consequently, the young…

s0094b39_Selection.pdf
A collection of nine different tales, each with a particular moral for the reader. The topics of the stories range from shipwrecked sailors to devoted little dogs, to moral injunctions to surround oneself with company of good sensibilities, fortitude…

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A young girl from Oxfordshire is courted by a gentleman who persuades her to go out walking with him one day and rapes her. When she discovers she is with child, she writes to him begging him to marry her and save her from the public shame that would…
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