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Frances Brooke

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Also known as Frances Moore Brooke, Mary Singleton, spinster

English novelist, essayist, playwright and translator (1724-1789)

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Born
1724?
Died
1789
Works
53

Top works

  • Rosina: or, Love in a cottage
  • The songs of the comic opera of Rosina: or, Love in a cottage
  • Airs, songs, duetts, trios and chorusses, in Marian
  • Histoire d'Emilie Montague
  • When William at Eve

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Quotes

  • Her mouth, which a smile,Devoid of all guile,  Half opens to view,Is the bud of the roseIn the morning that blows,  Impearl’d with the dew.More fragrant her breathThan the flow’r-scented heath  At the dawning of day;The hawthorn in bloom,The lily’s perfume,  Or the blossoms of may.

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