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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Fisher, Mary

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FISHER, MARY,
An enthusiastic English Quakeress of the seventeenth century, who travelled to Constantinople, with the intention of converting the Grand Seignior. She embarked at Smyrna in an Italian vessel for Adrianople; but her design being discovered, she was taken from the ship, and sent to Venice. This opposition only increased her zeal, and she determined to pursue her journey by land. When she reached Adrianople, she obtained an audience with Mahomet the Fourth, who, surprised at her courage, and the manner in which she addressed him, regarded her as deranged, and ordered her to be carried back to her own country in the first vessel that sailed. On her return, she was received in triumph by the Quakers, and married to one of the principal members of that sect
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Entree

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Enharmonic

​ENHARMONIC. See Change I. 3, Diesis, Modulation, Temperament.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Entführung aus dem Serail, Die

From volume 1 of the work.
​ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL, DIE, a comic operetta (Singspiel) in 3 acts, by Mozart; words altered by Stephanie from Bretzner's 'Belmont und Constanze.' Begun July 30, 1781; produced July 12 [App. p.628 "July 16"], 82, at Vienna. Its French and Italian titles are, L'Enlèvement au Sérail' and 'Il Seraglio.' It was produced in English 'with additional airs by Mr. Kramer' as 'The Seraglio,' at Covent Garden, Nov. 24, 1827. [Andre, 66a.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Entr'acte

​ENTR'ACTE. See Divertissement, Intermezzo, Nocturne, Tune (Act-).
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Epine, Francesca de l'

From volume 1 of the work.
​EPINE, Francesca Margherita de l', in spite of her French-sounding surname, appears to have been an Italian singer. From Italy she came to England with a German musician named Greber, and was often, therefore, called 'Greber's Peg' by the wits of the day. An advertisement in the 'London Gazette' (No. 2834), 1692, announces that the ' Italian lady (that is lately come over that is so famous for her singing) though it has been reported that she will sing no more in the consort at York-buildings; yet this is to give notice, that next Tuesday, January 10th, she will sing there, and so continue during the season.' A fortnight later, this 'lady' is more familiarly called the 'Italian woman' in the notice given in the Gazette, that she would not only sing at York-buildings every Tuesday, but on Thursday in Freeman's-yard, Cornhill. She was the first Italian who sang in England. In the theatrical advertisement for Lincoln's Inn Fields, June 1, 1703, it is said that 'Signora Francesca Margarita de l'Epine will sing, being positively the last time of her singing on the stage during her stay in England.' She continued, notwithstanding this, to sing during the whole of that month; nor did she ever quit England, but remained here till the time of her death, about the middle of the last century.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Equal Voices

​EQUAL VOICES. See Unequal, and Voices.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Erard (singer)

From volume 1 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Erard (instrument makers)

From volume 1 of the work.
​ERARD. The name borne by this firm of harp and pianoforte makers has been known almost as long in England as in France, its ​workshops having been established in London near the close of the last century, not long after those in Paris. The reputation of Erard's house is as much due to successful improvements in the harp as in the pianoforte, those of the harp being of like importance to the perfecting of the violin accomplished by the famous Cremona makers.
Sebastien Erard was born at Strassburg in 1752, and was early put to his father's handicraft of cabinet-maker. His father dying when he was sixteen he went to Paris and placed himself with a harpsichord-maker. He had soon the opportunity to display his practical ingenuity by the construction of a mechanical harpsichord, which was described by the Abbé Roussier in 1776. The Duchess of Villeroi took notice of him, and allotted to him a workshop in her own chateau, where, in 1777, he made the first pianoforte constructed in France. According to Fétis this was a square with two unisons and five octaves, similar to the English and German instruments that had been imported. He now established himself, with his brother Jean Baptiste, in the Rue de Bourbon. Their success exciting the jealousy of the Parisian musical instrument-makers known as Luthiers, and belonging to the Fan-makers' Guild, they used the power they possessed to seize Erard's workshops; Louis XVI, however, came to the aid of the brothers, and conferred upon Sebastien (A.D. 1785) a brevet permitting him to make 'forte-pianos' independent of the guild, but obliging him to employ workmen who had satisfied its regulations. (Rimbault, 'The Pianoforte,' 1860, p. 124.)
The French Revolution compelled Sebastien Erard to leave Paris, and we find him in London in 1794 taking out a patent for improvements in harps and pianofortes [App. p.629 "the establishment of the London house was not due to the French Revolution; Sebastien Erard had already begun business in London in 1786"]. He returned to Paris, after the Terror, in 1796, in which year he made his first grand piano, using the English action, which, Fétis informs us, he continued with until 1808. In 1809 he patented a repetition grand piano action, the first, and improvements in the construction of the harp, nearly completing that ingenious double action which was begun about 1786 and was perfected in 1810. A feature in the 1809 patent was the inverted bridge or upward bearing at the wrestplank bridge of the piano, since universally adopted. Advanced age made Sebastien leave to his nephew Pierre Erard (born 1796) the introduction of his perfected repetition action, the patent for which was taken out in London in 1821. Sebastien died in 1831. In 1835 the patent was extended to Pierre Erard for seven years on the plea of its great value and of the losses sustained in working it. The invention in 1838 of the Harmonic Bar is claimed for him (Dr. Oscar Paul, 'Geschichte des Claviers,' Leipzig, 1868). [See Pianoforte.]
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# A Birthday Wish

Oh, could I as I lift this pen  Mark out thy destiny, I would have thee happy now as when  Nurs'd at thy mother's knee.
I would have thee cherish'd, free from harm  On this eventful morn, Bless'd and content, with brow as calm  As the hour that thou wer't born.
On a peaceful pillow thou wouldst sleep,  Thy dreams should pleasant be; Would God, I had the power to keep  Thy heart from sorrow free.
The flowers of hope thy path would strew,  To walk in manly pride; All hearts around thee firm and true,  Great good should thee betide.
I've not the power, alas, dear friend  To give thee all I say, But hope they'll please, the lines I send  Thee, on thy natal day.
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# A Blighted Life

A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.
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A BLIGHTED LIFE. BY THE RIGHT HON. LADY LYTTON. A True Story.
* Appendix.
* Supplemental Notes.
** Section 1
** Section 2
** Section 3
** Section 4
** Lord Lytton the First
** Mr. John Forster
* INDEX TO "A BLIGHTED LIFE."
* INDEX TO SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.
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# A Bit of Sunshine

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A Bit of Sunshine.
ILLUSTRATED.
New York:
DODD, MEAD & COMPANY,
Publishers.
Copyright, 1879, by Dodd, Mead & Co.
A BIT OF SUNSHINE.
"Mam-ma," said Kate, as she stood ​at the door, which she had o-pened to let puss in, "may I not go out and play? the clouds are all gone and the sun shines bright and warm."
"But the grass must be quite soaked af-ter all the rain," said mam-ma. "I will tell you what to do; run to pa-pa, and ask him if he will not take us to drive."
What a bright af-ter-noon it was; the long rain had made all the grass and leaves look bright and green, and they were rust-ling in the fresh breeze. A-way out at sea the ships were fly-ing be-fore the wind, looking like great white birds. Kate's home was at the sea-side, and their drive this af-ter-noon would take them for a time on the beach.
"What was the name of that boat, pa-pa?" she asked.
"Phil-lis," said pa-pa.
"Why, that's a girl's name," said Kate.
"Our pond is too deep for it to be safe for you to play a-bout it," said pa-pa; "but when you are old-er you shall have a boat with-out fail."
"Their mam-ma lets them walk out though the grass is wet; but I would much rath-er ride this way than walk at a-ny time, or play ei-ther, and so would they, I know."
Soon the drops be-gan to fall, but their car-riage had a top, and they had with them rugs, so that they were not hurt at all. Kate, as she peeped out, saw that all were not so safe. A girl and a boy were crouched close un-der a bush by the road-side.
"They will not get ve-ry wet," said mam-ma, "for the cloud is near-ly passed by, and the sun shines once more."
"It is on-ly five now," said pa-pa; "we can have a good hour more, and Kate won't mind, I fan-cy, if she is a lit-tle late for once."
"No, in-deed," said Kate; "I think a-ny way I am get-ting much too big to go to bed at sev-en."
"She's on-ly a ba-by," said Kate with great in-dig-na-tion, "and I am quite a large lit-tle wo-man."
Pa-pa and mam-ma both laughed at Kate's tone. She did not like to be laughed at at all, and so, to change the sub-ject, as they went by a house, called out, "Why, what are that boy and girl do-ing at that hogs-head?"
"Fish-ing," said pa-pa so-ber-ly.
"Well," said pa-pa, "I think that dog has had a les-son. He will not trou-ble that cat a-gain, I am sure. I won-der what he did to make her so an-gry. Per-haps he teased her kittens."
"Oh, how sweet!" cried Kate. "Papa, dear, do stop a min-ute." So pa-pa drew in his hors-es, and they watched them for a lit-tle while. The birds did not seem to mind them at all.
"There are no bad boys here-about," said pa-pa, "that is ve-ry certain."
"I am quite sure," said mam-ma, "that it must be time for us to be home. The sun is near-ly set-ting."
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# A Blighted Life/Index

INDEX TO "A BLIGHTED LIFE."
* Account of Jean Hestier, the poor orphan, 60
* Anecdote of Sir E. L.'s brutality to his wife, 76
* Appendix, 76
* Attempt to induce Lady L. to live with her husband, 58
* Aylmer's, Lady, Ball at, 6
* Bell, Mr. Robert, spreads the report of the pretended madness of Lady L., 12
* Blackburn, Lady, Money lent by, and Mr. L.'s notions of honour, 65
* Brellesford, the Maid, Courage of, 10
* Clarke's, Mrs., interview with Sir E.'s solicitor, 37
* Cockburn, described, 6; alluded to, 47, 69; tries to borrow money from Sir E., scene, 70
* Cole, Mr., Q.C., alluded to, 64, 69; Lady L. gives a testimonial to, 70
* D—— and Wyndham Lewis, 20
* Deacon, Miss Laura, Account of, 23, 24
* Dedication of "Lucille" defended, 47, 57
* Dickens, Charles, described, 4; "In Memoriam" by, 22
* Directions to her son in case of Lady L.'s death, 40
* Divorce Court, Why Lady L. did not apply to, 50
* Drives with Mary H. described, 39, 43
* E. J.'s flattering account of Sir E. in an American Court, 72
* Gratton, alluded to, 41
* H——, the Madhouse Keeper, driven from Brentford, 55
* Hertford Election, Lady L. speaks at, 27
* Hodgson, the good attorney, 8
* Hotham, Lady, Visit to, 8
* Hyde, Mr., Lady L.'s solicitor, opposes Sir E.'s plot to prevent the pittance being paid, 17
* Interview with her son described by Lady L., 50
* Lady Lytton describes her son's conduct, 44; abandoned by him abroad, 59; ceases to have intercourse with him, 66
* Lamartine quoted, 6
* Langollen, Mrs. P., the spy, at, 8
* Lawrence, the Quaker, and Lord L., 71, 73
* Leighton set upon Lady L., 10
* London, Lady L. visits, and is trapped, 33
* Loudon, Mrs., Account of, 7
* Lytton, Sir E., lectures on the Holiness of Truth, 11; on the scene of abduction, 35; drummed out of Nice, 40
* Lyndhurst, Lord, applied to, 19; his letter, 19
* Lyndhurst, Lord, and Lady Sykes, 6, 20; his conduct as to Lady L.'s papers, 22
* Madhouse conspiracy carried out, 35; Arrival at, 36; Waking at, for the first time, 38
* Maginn, Dr., alluded to, 63
* Mary H——, Lady L.'s little friend, described, 37; Drives with, described, 39, 43
* Massey, Lord, alluded to, 41
* Norton, Mrs., 6; Anecdote of, 18; Trial of, 63
* O'Kane and Palmerston, Case of, 63
* Plot as to copyright of "Very Successful," 67
* Queen, The, and Prince Albert compared, 19; alluded to, 42
* R——, Miss, 47; as a spy, 54
* Return from abroad and reception at Taunton, 61
* Roberts, Dr. Oily Gammon, described, 43
* Shaftesbury, Lord, and the trusteeship, 53, 57, 65
* Sparrow, the maid, 38
* Stepney, Lady, alluded to, 76
* "Strange Story, A," alluded to, 19
* Terror of Lord L. in his son, 56
* Talfourd, Mr. Serjt., and his Custody of Infants Bill, 5
* Whalley, Mr., sent for, 17
# A Blighted Life/Index to Supplemental Notes

INDEX TO SUPPLEMENTAL NOTES.
* Allpuff, Sir Janus, 102, 105, 106, 107
* "An Englishman's" letter to the Daily Telegraph, 97
* Athol, The late Duke of, described by Lady L., 103
* Brentford Asylum, Arrival at, 87
* Clarke, Mrs., refuses to allow Lady L.'s goods to be removed, 83
* Clapper, Bob, 105
* Cockburn, Sir Alex., alluded to, 102
* Daily Telegraph, The, Extracts from, 90, 94, 99
* Forster, Mr. John, 102
* Gorgon, Lady, 105
* Hertford Election, 83
* Hill, Mr., the keeper of the Brentford Asylum, and his grievance, 101
* Hyde, Mr., Lady L.'s solicitor, alluded to, 88
* Income of Lady L. shamefully small, 82
* Jabber, Mr. Jericho, 105
* Knebworth to let, Advertisement of, 102
* Letters to the Daily Telegraph, 90, 95, 96, 99
* Letter of Mr. Lytton to the Daily Telegraph, 96
* Letter of Mr. Forbes Winslow to Edwin James, Q. C., 96
* Letter of Dr. Connelly, 97
* Leyton, Mr., alluded to, 106
* London, Lady L.'s visit to, and abduction, 85
* Lytton, Lady, described, 79
* Lytton, Sir E., on the scene of abduction, 87
* Lytton, Lord, the first, 102
* Madhouse dens and the Lunacy Laws, Preface, iii.
* Meeting of the inhabitants of Taunton, and the resolutions passed, 88
* Sketch of Lord Lytton, 93
* Somerset Gazette, Extract from, 79
* Thompson, Dr., visits Lady L., 84
* "Very Successful," Extract from, 102, 103
THE END.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Irene

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Isabella

From volume 2 of the work.
​ISABELLA. [See Girardeau.]
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Iphigénie en Tauride

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Isham, John

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Iphigénie en Aulide

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Iron Chest, The

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Ipermestra

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Basine, or Basin

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BASINE, OR BASIN,
Was the wife of Basin, king of Thuringia. Childeric, king of France, driven from his dominions by his people, sought an asylum with the king of Thuringia; and during his residence at that court, Basine conceived a strong attachment for him. Childeric was at length restored to his kingdom; and a short time after, he beheld with surprise the queen of Thuringia present herself before him. "Had I known a more valiant hero than yourself," said she to Childeric, "I should have fled over the seas to his arms." Childeric received her gladly, and married her. She became the mother, in 467, of the great Clovis, the first Christian king of France.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Beatrice of Provence

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BEATRICE,
Of Provence, daughter of Raymond Berenger, count of Provence, married, in 1245, Charles, son of Louis the Eighth of France, who was afterwards crowned king of Naples and Sicily. She died at Nocisa.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bathsheba, or Bathchuah

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BATHSHEBA, or BATHCHUAH,
Daughter of Eliam Ammiel, was the wife of Uriah the Hittite. While her husband was absent at the siege of Kabbah, David, king of Israel, accidentally saw, and fell violently in love with her. In consequence of this, he contrived the death of her husband, and married her. Bathsheba's eldest child by David died, but she bore four others to him, of whom Solomon and Nathan are reckoned in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.
Bathsheba is represented as very beautiful; and she must have been a woman of extraordinary powers of mind, as she exercised over her husband, king David, such paramount influence. Though he had, by his other wives, several sons older than Solomon, and Adonijah seems to have been his favourite, yet she induced him to promise that Solomon her son should succeed to the throne. The scene in David's death-chamber, when, at her appeal, the old king calls back, as it were, the full powers of his strong mind to give her again the solemn promise that her son shall reign, is sufficient confirmation of her influence. After David's death she was treated with profound reverence by her son, king Solomon. The period of her death is not recorded ; but the last time she is mentioned, when she "sat on the right hand" of her son, who was "on his throne," was about B. C. 1012.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Battistati, Louisa

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BATTISTATI, LOUISA,
A native of Stradella, Sardinia, and a mantua-maker at Milan, displayed remarkable courage during the five days of the Revolution at Milan, in 1848. On Sunday, March 10th. she disarmed a cavalry soldier, though he carried a carbine. She placed herself at the head of the Poppietti bridge, and steadily continued there, fighting against the enemy during the 20th. 21st. and 22nd. days, heading a valiant band of young men, and killing a Croate at every shot. She defended the large establishment at Vettabia, which contained 680 persons, being the edifice in which the widows and their children, and other females took refuge when Barbaressa stormed Milan. This young woman was, in 1850, married, and doing duty in the civic guard. To this woman must be given a place in history, beside the heroine of Saragossa, and other examples of female intrepidity.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Basseporte, Madeleine Frances

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BASSEPORTE, MADELEINE FRANCES,
A French lady, celebrated for her talent in painting plants and animals, especially birds, in water-colours. She was born in 1701, and received instructions from the celebrated Robert. In 1732, she succeeded Obriette, the painter of natural history in the royal gardens, with a salary of one hundred pistoles a year. She died in 1780. Madame Basseporte also produced some good engravings.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Baynard, Anne

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BAYNARD, ANNE,
Only daughter of Edward Baynard, an eminent physician, was born at Preston, Lancashire, 1672. She was well instructed in the classics and sciences, and wrote Latin with ease and correctness. At the age of twenty-three, she had the knowledge of a profound philosopher. She often said "that it was a sin to he content with a little knowledge."
To the endowments of mind, she added the virtues of the heart; she was pious, benevolent, and simple in her manners; retired and perhaps too rigid in her habits. She always put aside a portion of her small income for charitable purposes; and to this she added an ardent desire and strenuous efforts for the mental and moral inprovement of all within her influence.
About two years previous to her death, her spirits seem to have been impressed with an idea of her early dissolution; a sentiment which first suggested itself to her mind while walking alone, among the tombs in a church-yard; and which she indulged with a kind of superstitious complacency. On her death-bed, she earnestly entreated the minister who attended her, that he would exhort all the young people of his congregation to the study of wisdom and knowledge, as the means of moral improvement and real happiness. The following character is given of this lady in Mr. Collier's Historical Dictionary. "Anne Baynard, for her prudence, piety, and learning, deserves to have her memory perpetuated: she was not only skilled in the learned languages, but in all manner of literature and philosophy, without vanity or affectation. Her words were few, well chosen and expressive. She was seldom seen to smile, being rather of a reserved and stoical disposition; this doctrine, in most parts, seeming agreeable to her natural temper, for she never read or spake of the stoics but with a kind of delight. She had a contempt for the world, especially of the finery and gaiety of life. She had a great regard and veneration for the sacred name of God, and made it the whole business of her life to promote his honour and glory; and the great end of her study was to encounter atheists and libertines, as may appear from some severe satires written in the Latin tongue, in which language she had great readiness and fluency of expression.
Anne Baynard died at Barnes, in the county of Surrey, in 1697
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Beatrice, daughter of the count of Burgundy

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BEATRICE,
Daughter of the count of Burgundy, married the emperor Frederick in 1156. It is asserted by some historians that she was insulted by the Milanese, and that the emperor revenged her wrongs ​by the destruction of Milan, and the ignominious punishment of the inhabitants.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Beale, Mary

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BEALE, MARY,
An English portrait-painter, was born in Suffolk, in 1632, and died in 1697. She was the daughter of the Rev. Mr. Cradock, minister of Walton-upon-Thames, and was instructed in her art by Sir Peter Lely, whose works, and those of Vandyck, she studied with the greatest care. Her style was formed on the best models of the Italian school, and her colouring was clear, strong, and natural.
She also paraphrased some of the Psalms of David.