Manuscripts
Animal Magnetism
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The woman's book : dealing practically with the modern conditions of home-life, self-support, education, opportunities, and every-day problems ; in two volumes, with four hundred illustrations
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The eleven authors who contributed essays to this book on women in business, education, and the professions reflect the changing attitudes towards women at the end of the 19th century.
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Old City Manners
Manuscripts
The note to the Examiner describes play as 'Alterations in the following comedy call'd Old City Manners' (taken from the Old Comedy of Eastward Hoe). Includes a number of corrections and a prologue for Eastward Hoe. There are slight differences between the manuscript and print versions.
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Animal Magnetism. Comedy, 3 acts. Elizabeth Inchbald
Manuscripts
The collection consists of official copies of plays submitted for licensing between 1737 and 1824. Most of copies were written by professional copyists. Approximately 95 of the plays submitted were printed texts, either whole or partial. These have been cataloged individually and may be searched in the online catalog.
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Animal Magnetism
Visual Materials
The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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The Animated Effigy
Manuscripts
On old wealthy lady feigns death and pretends to be her own statue, in order to hear what her relatives really think of her.
mssLA 1660
The Novel; or, Mistakes of a Night
Manuscripts
Produced as 'She Stoops to Conquer', this comedy centres around the courtship of Kate Hardcastle and Charles Marlow.
mssLA 349