Padua; who joined to her serious knowledge agreeable talents, particularly music, and exalted her talents by her virtue. She received homage from sovereign pontiffs and kings; and, that every thing relating to her might be singular, lived more than a century."
Wrote several works, which possessed wit, invention, and originality; amongst others, David Simple; Ophelia. A work on Education; a translation of Xenophon's Memorabilia; the Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia, and a dramatic novel called the Cry. Her brother wrote a preface to the first, in which he exalts her power of delineating character, by comparing her to Shakespear, and praises her amiable qualities.
FISHER, MARY a Quaker of the last Century,
Who formed the project of visiting Constantinople, to convert the grand seignior. On her arrival at Smyrna, the English consul sent her to Venice. She then went all the way by land, and actually appeared before the sultan Mahomet IV. who heard her patiently, and, then supposing her to be mad, caused her to be sent back to her own country, where she married a preacher of the same sect. This couple afterwards went into Languedoc, to preach the tenets of quakerism among the protestants of that province.
FLEURS (PHILIBERTE DE), a Poetess of Tours in the 16th Century.
