Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem]

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unitid

{"value"=>"23722", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem]"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1780s?", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1780/1789", "certainty"=>"questionable"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet)"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"24 cm"}], "supress_display"=>true}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Pforzheimer Manuscript (MISC 4291)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>Anonymous fair copy sixty-one line poem, apparently unpublished, about a young woman named Fanny, forced by her family to work as a servant and seamstress at a vicarage; begins, \"As you my dear friends have oft said was a pity / That a Girl like your Fanny so lively & witty, / So form'd for to shine, at a Ball, or a Play, / By a Brother, and Aunt, shou'd be hurried away ....\" The paper bears an armorial watermark of Britannia and a countermark of the letter \"C\" in a circle; paper with similar watermarks dates to the 1780's.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

date_start

1780

keydate

1780

date_end

1789

date_inclusive_start

1780

date_inclusive_end

1789

extent_statement

3 ¹/₂ pages (double sheet)

prefercite

{"value"=>"Address'd to the ladies at Little Chelsea [manuscript poem], Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>" Anonymous fair copy sixty-one line poem, apparently unpublished, about a young woman named Fanny, forced by her family to work as a servant and seamstress at a vicarage; begins, \"As you my dear friends have oft said was a pity / That a Girl like your Fanny so lively witty, / So form'd for to shine, at a Ball, or a Play, / By a Brother, and Aunt, shou'd be hurried away ....\" The paper bears an armorial watermark of Britannia and a countermark of the letter \"C\" in a circle; paper with similar watermarks dates to the 1780's.", "generated"=>true}

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