Author: Mrs. Susannah Centlivre

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-05-17

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9780259455912

Excerpt from The Dramatic Works of the Celebrated Mrs. Centlivre, Vol. 1 of 3: With a New Account of Her Life In her early Days {he was inclined to be very gav being left an Orphan before fhe was twelve Years of Age, her Father, Mr. Freeman, of Holbeac/z, in Lincoln /lzire, having at that Time been dead, nine Years; thus was the Princefs of Dramatic Poets left without a Guide, but her native Wit foon brought her into Fame. The Spirit of Poetry was born with her, for before the was feyen Years old fhe wrote a very pretty Song, and adapted it to a fprightly Tune, which became a dif tinguilhed country-dance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.