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BROOKE, FRANCES (1724-1789)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 643 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BROOKE, FRANCES (1724-1789) , See also:

ENGLISH

English novelist and dramatist, whose See also:

MAIDEN, or MAID

maiden name was See also:

Moore, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in 1724. Of her novels, some of which enjoyed considerable popularity in their See also:

day, the most important were The See also:

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History of See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady Julia See also:

Mandeville (1763), Emily Montague (1769) and The Excursion (1777). Her dramatic pieces and See also:

TRANSLATIONS

translations from the See also:

French are now forgotten. She died in See also:

JANUARY

January 1789.

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