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  2. William Wycherley - Wikipedia

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    Wycherley's play, Love in a Wood, was produced in early 1671 at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.It was published the following year. Wycherley claimed to have written the play at the age of nineteen (in 1660 or 1661) before going to Oxford, but Thomas Macaulay points to the allusions in the play to gentlemen's periwigs, to guineas, to the vests that King Charles II ordered to be worn at court ...

  3. Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe - Wikipedia

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    When Poe wrote it, his wife had just begun to show signs of her illness. [94] It was shortly thereafter that the couple moved to New York City by boat and Poe published "The Oblong Box" (1844). This story, which shows a man mourning his young wife while transporting her corpse by boat, seems to suggest Poe's feelings about Virginia's impending ...

  4. Conduct book - Wikipedia

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    In the introduction to her bibliography of American conduct books published before 1900, Sarah E. Newton defines the conduct book as . a text that is intended for an inexperienced young adult or other youthful reader, that defines an ethical, Christian-based code of behavior, and that normally includes gender role definitions.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    The good die young; The grass is always greener (on the other side) (of the fence) The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world; The husband is always the last to know; The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow – William Cowper, English poet (1731–1800) [28] The labourer is worthy of his hire

  6. A Guide to All of Edith Wharton's Novels and Novellas - AOL

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    The Valley of Decision. Originally published 1902. Wharton's debut novel, the Valley of Decision, follows Odo Valsecca, a young man in northern Italy in the late 1700s.As the Cambridge Companion ...

  7. The French Lieutenant's Woman - Wikipedia

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    The French Lieutenant's Woman is a 1969 postmodern historical fiction novel by John Fowles.The plot explores the fraught relationship of gentleman and amateur naturalist Charles Smithson and Sarah Woodruff, the former governess and independent woman with whom he falls in love.

  8. Rachel Hollis - Wikipedia

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    Hollis' book Girl, Wash Your Face was described by The Washington Post as mixing "memoir, motivational tips, Bible quotations and common-sense girl talk." [3] The prevailing message of Girl, Wash Your Face is one largely of female self-reliance, summed up by Hollis as "You, and only you, are ultimately responsible for how happy you are." [3]

  9. Samuel Richardson - Wikipedia

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    Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761 [1]) was an English writer and printer known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753).