Anne Dacier

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Standard Name: Dacier, Anne
Birth Name: Anne Le Fèvre
Used Form: Anna Tanaquilli Fabri filia
Married Name: Anne Lesnier
AD , a Frenchwoman, was active as a classical scholar, editor, translator, and critic during the early eighteenth century. Her work and her reputation were well known in England.
Black and white engraved portrait of Anne Dacier. She is facing the viewer, though turned to her left a little. She wears a gown with lace detailing along the neckline and collar, with a head-dress attached at the back of her head; her hair is gathered there, and falls around her shoulders. Her expression is neutral.

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Family and Intimate relationships Sappho
Interest in her sexuality was disseminated in Europe by Ovid in his Heroides (or Heroines), a collection from the first century AD of fictional epistles, mostly from women (all of them except Sappho mythological)...
Anthologization Sarah, Lady Pennington
An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters quickly became a staple of composite volumes directed toward young women's conduct. At Edinburgh a volume of this kind, Instructions for a Young Lady, in every sphere...

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