An introductory address To the Reviewers urges them (with the trembling deemed appropriate for a woman writer) not to read the book in the morning but in the period of good humour after dinner.
Pearson, Susanna. The Medallion. G. G. and J. Robinson, 1794, 3 vols.
1: 7-8
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Elizabeth Hamilton
Agrippina the elder, grand-daughter of Augustus
had defied the tyrannical rule of Tiberius
. She was admired at this period as much as her namesake and daughter, Nero's mother, was abhorred. For Hamilton her story...
