Lebrixa, Francisca de, 6

Lee, Francis, 114

Legacy of a Dying Mother, 95

Leland, John, 11

Lennox, Mrs. Charlotte, 135, 195, 239-43, 246, 411-12, 413, 437

Letter touching a College of Maids, 273

Letters concerning the Love of God, 101, 297

Levellers, The, 259

Lilliputian Magazine, The, 233

Lioba, St., 1

Lionel and Clarissa, 398-99

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, 103, 170, 171, 172, 178, 180, 246, 251

Little Catechism with Little Verses, 89, 435

Little Female Academy, 233, 237-38, 435, 447

Little Gidding, 40-42, 44, 270

Little Pretty Pocket Book, 233, 435

Lives of the English Poets (Winstanley), 190, 421

Lives of the Poets (Cibber), 84, 128, 129, 146, 155, 208, 212, 251, 366, 421, 453

Locke, John, 100, 101, 102, 107, 109, 338, 343, 452

London, Bishop of, 26

Looking-Glass for Children, 89

Lost Lover, The, 208

Lounsbury, Thomas, 192

Love in Excess, 366

Love's Labour's Lost, 37

"Lovewit, Mrs.," 383

Lowndes, W. T., 189

Lucar, Elizabeth, 16, 430

Lumley, Lady Joanna, 14

"Lydia Languish," 418-19, 446

Lynacre, Dr., 6

Lyttleton, Lord, 336

Luther, Martin, 25


Macaulay, Catherine, 429, 430

Macaulay, T. B., 142, 431

Madan, Mrs., 248-49

Major, Elizabeth, 127

Makin, Mrs., 44, 341, 426, 441, 448

Malcolm, James P., 267

Manley, Mrs. de la Rivière, 106, 119, 132, 151, 208-11, 230, 304, 424, 431, 437, 453

Manly, Mrs. Arabella, 260

Manners and Customs in London in the Eighteenth Century, 267

Manning, Anne, 9

"Marilla," 410-11, 418

"Marinda," 155. See Monck, The Hon. Mrs.

Marinelli, Lucrecia, 27, 53, 323

"Marissa," 149. See Lady Chudleigh

Marriage à la Mode, 377

"Marsilia" [Mrs. Manley], 387

Mary, Princess, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17

Mary Salome, Mother, 38

Masham, Lady Damaris, 100-02, 443, 444, 452

Mason, Mr., 89, 435

Masters, Mary, 249-50

Mayne, Jasper, 375

McIlquham, Miss, 315

"Meanwell, Lady," 383-84

"Melantha," 378

Melville, Elizabeth, 20

Mendoza, Doña Maria Pacheco, 6

Method of Devotion, 98

Midsummer Night's Dream, A, 38

Midwives' Book, The, 90

Miles, Dudley, 376

"Millamant," 377

Millennium Hall, 271

Milton, John, 25

"Miss" and "Mrs.," 76-77

Mock Astrologer, The, 377

Modern Language Notes, 27

Molière, J. B. P., 368, 375, 376, 396, 400, 402, 403

Molière, Influence of, on Restoration Comedy, 376

Monck, The Hon. Mrs., 155

Monk, Mrs., 412-13

Monroe, Paul, 37, 42, 44, 276

Montagu, Mrs. Elizabeth, 263

Montagu, Lady Mary, and her Times, 194, 196, 199

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, 66, 193-208, 262, 305, 315, 336, 341, 349, 424, 439, 440, 441, 450, 454

Montagu, Mr. Wortley, 196, 198, 199

Moore, Edward, 336-37

More, Cresacre, 9, 10, 11

More, Henry, 113

More, Henry, The Life of, 114

More, Sir Thomas, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 45

More, The Household of Sir Thomas, 9

Mores, Edward Rowe, 172, 177

Morgan, Charlotte E., 231

Morwen, Dr. John, 11

Mother's Legacie to her Unborne Childe, The, 29

Mother's Will to an Unborn Child, The, 95

Mozans, H. J., 1, 4, 6

Mulcaster, Richard, 17, 426

Muses' Library, The, 189-93, 421


Naish Court, 270

Nelson, Robert, 303

New Atalantis, The, 119, 151, 209, 210

Newbery, John, 89, 435

Newcastle, Duchess of, 45, 46-54, 127-28, 141, 326, 393, 425, 428, 430, 434, 439, 451

Newcome, Mrs., 104

New English Drama, 136

New General Biographical Dictionary, 5, 368

New Help to Discourse, 25

New Shakspere Society Series, 24

Nichols, John, 103, 104, 170, 171, 172, 178, 179, 180, 181, 183, 187, 193, 243, 246, 251

Nine Muses; or Poems on the Death of John Dryden, 106

Norris, John, 100, 101, 107, 297, 452

North, The Hon. Miss Dudleya, 143, 365, 450, 451

North, Mary, 59-61, 428, 450

North, Roger, 60, 440

Norths, The Lives of the, 60, 440

Notabilità e della eccellenza delle donne e difetti degli uomini, 27

Notes and Queries, 21, 25, 26, 29, 43, 44, 77, 89, 93, 119, 162, 188

Numismata, 20, 141, 364


Occasional Thoughts, 101, 102

Ogilvius, Johannes, 179

Old English Scholarship in England from 1566 to 1800, 176

"Oldwit, Gertrude," 380-82

Oldys, William, 85, 189-90

Opdyke, L. E., 18

Orations of Divers Sorts, 50

"Orinda," 53, 54-59, 63, 64, 139, 141, 154, 160, 162, 257, 433, 438, 444, 451.
See Mrs. Katherine Philips

Oroonoko, 130-31

Osborne, Dorothy, 51, 58, 61-66, 80, 155, 156, 157, 400-01, 428, 432, 440

Osborne, Mrs. Sarah, 62, 156-57

Overbury, Sir Thomas, 23

Overing, Mrs., 259


Pakington, Lady, 66-67, 80, 316, 317, 365, 428, 433, 443, 444, 450

"Pamela," 338

Paper-cutting, 261, 271-72

Paradise Lost, 25

Parker, Chief Justice, 178

Parr, Queen Catherine, 8, 14

Partonope of Blois, 3

Patch-work Screen, A, 161, 162, 262

Patroness, The, 22, 28, 432-33

Pearl, A Chain of, 35-36

"Peggy's" Accounts, 43

Pell, John, 277

Pembroke, Countess of, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 29, 326, 364

Pen, Miss Margaret, 86, 87

Pendarves, Mrs. (See Delany, Mrs.)

Pennant, Thomas, 32, 33

Pepys, Mrs., 86, 87

Pepys, Samuel, 128, 377, 401

Percy Society Publications, 68

Peregrine Pickle, 204

Perwick, Mrs., 42

Peveril of the Peak, 51

Philips, Constantia, 205, 246

Philips, Joan, 138-39

Philips, Mrs. Katherine, 42, 54-59, 141, 160, 230, 248, 326.
See "Orinda"

Phillips, Ambrose, 338, 437

Phillips, Edward, 190, 191, 421

Phillips, John, 20

"Philomela," 157, 158, 160.
See Rowe, Mrs.

Philosophical and Physical Opinions, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50

Pious Englishwomen in the Seventeenth Century, 92

Pix, Mrs., 132-33

Plügge, Georg, 239

Poetical Recreations, 161

Poetical Register, The, 191, 421

Polite Conversation, 52, 222

Political and Social Letters of a Lady of Quality, 156-57

Polly Honeycomb, 204, 213, 214, 413-18, 446

Pompey the Little, 126, 204

Pope, Alexander, 109, 130, 136, 174, 199, 201, 202, 211, 215, 218, 219, 226, 235, 245, 248, 261, 348-50, 353, 366, 393, 444

Pope, Emma Field, 2

Portland, Duchess of, 184-85

Positions, 17

Powell, Thomas, 23

Power of Love, The, 209

Précieuses, Les, 375, 376, 380, 400

Priests, Josias, 259

Primrose, Lady Diana, 36

Princess, The, 370, 430

Protestant Nunnery, A, 270

Prude, John, 144

Pseudonyms or Initials
"A. C." [Lady Cokaine?]
"A. M.," Mrs.
"Ardelia" [Lady Winchilsea]
"Astræa" [Mrs. Behn]
"Corinna" [Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas]
"Ephelia" [Joan Philips]
"Galesia" [Jane Barker]
"Lætitia" [Lady Mary Wortley Montagu]
"Marinda" [The Hon. Mrs. Monck]
"Marissa" [Lady Chudleigh]
"Orinda" [Mrs. Katherine Philips]
"Philomela" [Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe]
"Stella" [Hester Johnson]

Putnam, Emily James, 2, 4

Puttenham, George, 18

Pylades and Corinna, 212


Queen-like Closet, The, 91

Quixote, The Benevolent, 241

Quixote, The Female, 195, 240-41, 411-12

Quixote, The Spiritual, 241


Radegunde, St., 1

Rainbow, Bishop, 31, 32

Ratione Studii, De, 7

Reading Lists:
Vives and Hyrde, 8;
Mr. Bellamy's list, 266-67;
Dr. Hickes's list, 294-95;
list in Essay in Defence of Female Sex, 307-08;
Steele: Ladies' Library, 330-33;
Leonora's Library, 330;
Polly Honeycomb's novels, 414-17;
Lydia Languish's novels, 418-19

Reasons Humbly Presented, 103

Reed, Bertha, 232, 233

Reflections on Ancient and Modern Learning, 22

Reflections on Marriage, 298, 300

Refusal, The, 395-98, 399

Restitution of Prophecy, The, 37