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An Essay Concerning Young Gentlewomen Educated at Boarding-School

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excerpted from
the 1st edition of The Worlds Olio
(London, 1655)

by  M A R G A R E T   C A V E N D I S H
(1623?–1673)
afterwards Duchess of Newcastle
 
Royalist émigré in Paris during the 1640s, and in Antwerp
during the 1650s, returning to England in 1660 following
the restoration of Charles II.
Natural philosopher, moral philosopher, poet, and
author of 22 published works between 1653–1671.

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