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• The history of Mary Wood : the house-maid; or, the danger of false excuses
  by: More, Hannah
  Published: (1797)
• The history of Mary Wood the house-maid; or, The danger of false excuses
  by: More, Hannah
  Published: (1795)
• Canterbury Tales : Compos'd for the entertainment of all ingenious young men and maids, at their merry meetings at Christmas, Easter, Whitsontide, or any other time, especially on the long winter evenings, to keep wits employ'd. Intermix'd with pleasant stories, witty jests, and delightful songs: very proper for either city, town or coun[t]ry. By Chaucer, Jun
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• The History of the beautiful Miss Fermia, a vintner's daughter of Savona : Her marriage to Lorenso, a master baker, of Genoa, against her father's consent-their living together three or four years very happy-his applying to his father-in-law for a portion with his wife-his refusal of the same, and his denial of seeing her any more-her husband taking to drinking, and all manner of wicked debauchery, they became very distressed-her writing to her father to take her little son from starving-his consenting to the same.-Her husband's murdering her, by cutting her throat from ear to ears, in a vineyard, about two miles from the city-his not being found out to be the murderer-his removal to Rome, and getting to be baker to the Duke of Florence-his following his old extravagant ways, and his income not able to support him-his robbing a young goldsmith of several valuable articles, and tried for the robbery, and received sentence of death-his confession of the murder of his wife, about an hour before his execution, who proved to be the mother of the young Goldsmith, and he his father.-The dreadful scene after the discovery was so affecting, it drew tears from many of the spectators eyes.-The young Goldsmith's removal after the unhappy execution of his father to his grandfather.-The old gentleman dying some time after, left him his whole estate. The above being published as a caution to children to be dutiful to their parents; and likewise for parents not to persist in not seeing a child after her committing a fault, which was the cause of his daughter and her husband losing their lives, and her father shortening his days
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• Cheap Repository : The History of Mary Wood. The house-maid. Or, the danger of false excuses
  by: More, Hannah
  Published: (1796)