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BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY

collection of her letters, to and from the most illustrious characters of the age, some of whom were crowned heads, and poems, were printed at Leyden, in 1668.

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BRIDGET, a Swedish Princess, Wife of Ulfon, Prince of Nericia. Died at Rome, 1373.

After the death of her husband, she went to Rome, where she founded the order of the monks of St. Saviour, to which she gave rules, written in thirty-one chapters. Towards the end of her life, she went to Palestine, to visit places sanctified, in her idea, by the holy men, who had formerly inhabited them. There is a volume of revelations, under her name, in eight books. She was canonized in 1415.

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BROADSTREET, (ANNE) a Poetess of New England, stiled in the Title to her Book of Poems, printed in Old England, 1650, "The Tenth Muse sprung up in America."

They consisted chiefly of a description of the four elements, the four humours, the four ages, the four seasons, and the four monarchies.

Female Worthies, &c.


BROHAN, (MADEMOISELLE) an ingenious French Writer, a Woman of Beauty and Virtue, afterwards married, but we know not the Name of her Husband.

At the age of eighteen, she had published many ingenious works. Some little romances appeared in the French Mercury; but her chef d'œuvre is les Amans Philosophes.

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