The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) / or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols.

by Mrs. Jameson

OF THE SECOND VOLUME.

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CHAPTER I.
Carew's Celia.—Lucy Sacheverel [1]
CHAPTER II.
Waller's Sacharissa [15]
CHAPTER III.
Beauties and Poets in the Reign of Charles I. [33]
CHAPTER IV.
Conjugal Poetry.
Ovid and Perilla—Seneca's Paulina—Sulpicia—Clotilde de Surville [43]
CHAPTER V.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Vittoria Colonna [60]
CHAPTER VI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Veronica Gambara—Camilla Valentini—Portia Rota—Castiglione [81]
CHAPTER VII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Doctor Donne and his Wife—Habington's Castara [94]
CHAPTER VIII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
The Two Zappi [131]
CHAPTER IX.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Lord Lyttelton—Prince Frederick—Doctor Parnell [139]
CHAPTER X.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Klopstock and Meta [154]
CHAPTER XI.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Bonnie Jean—Highland Mary—Loves of Burns [182]
CHAPTER XII.
Conjugal Poetry (continued.)
Monti and his Wife [209]
CHAPTER XIII.
Poets and Beauties from Charles II. to Queen Anne.
Cowley's Eleonora—Maria d'Este—Anne Killegrew—Lady Hyde—Granville's Mira—Prior's Chloe—Duchess of Queensbury [218]
CHAPTER XIV.
Swift, Stella and Vanessa [240]
CHAPTER XV.
Pope and Martha Blount [274]
CHAPTER XVI.
Pope and Lady M. W. Montagu [287]
CHAPTER XVII.
Poetical old Bachelors.
Gray—Collins—Goldsmith—Shenstone—Thomson—Hammond [308]
CHAPTER XVIII.
French Poets.
Voltaire and Madame du Châtelet—Madame de Gouverné [317]
CHAPTER XIX.
French Poets (continued.)
Madame d'Houdetot [333]
CONCLUSION.
Heroines of Modern Poetry [342]

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