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's chosen metre, poulter's measure, consists of alexandrines (lines of twelve syllables or six feet) alternating with lines of fourteen syllables or seven feet). She embroiders her prose sources with invented speeches for her...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
May Crommelin
She treats there the atrocities suffered by her Protestant Huguenot
ancestors in France in the seventeenth century, and the part played by her family in British history as supporters of William III
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Crommelin, May. “Introduction”. Orange Lily, edited by Philip Robinson, Ullans Press, p. vii - xi.
