to the
poetical character of this lady.
1. The World's Olio.
2. Nature's Picture drawn by Fancy's Pencil to the Life.
In this volume there are several feigned stories of natural
descriptions, as comical, tragical, and tragi-comical, poetical,
romancical, philosophical, and historical, both in prose and verse,
some all verse, some all prose, some mixt; partly prose, and partly
verse; also some morals, and some dialogues, Lond. 1656. folio.
3. Orations of different sorts, on different occasions, Lond. 1662.
4. Philosophical and Physical Opinions, 1633, folio.
5. Observations on Experimental Philosophy; to which is added, the
Description of a New World. Mr. James Bristow began to translate some
of these Philosophical Discourses into Latin.
6. Philosophical Letters; or modest Reflections on some Opinions in
Natural Philosophy, maintained by several famous and learned authors
of this age, expressed by way of letters, Lond. 1664, fol.
7. Poems and Fancies, Lond. 1664, folio.
8. Sociable Letters, 1664, folio.
9. The Life of the Duke of Newcastle her husband, which was translated
into Latin, and is thought to be the best performance of this lady.
10. Observations of the Duke's, with Remarks of her own,
In the Library of the late Mr. Thomas Richardson was the Duchess of
Newcastle's poems, 2 Vol. fol. MS. and in the library of the late
bishop Willis was another MS. of her poems in folio.
Her Dramatic Works are,
1. Apocryphal Ladies, a Comedy; it is not divided into acts.
2. Bell in Campo, a Tragedy, in two parts.
3. Blazing World, a Comedy.
4. Bridals, a Comedy.
5. Comical Hash, a Comedy.
6. Convent of Pleasure, a Comedy.
7. Female Academy, a Comedy.
8. Lady Contemplation, a Comedy, in two parts.
9. Love's Adventure, in two parts, a Comedy.
10. Matrimonial Troubles, in two parts; the second being a Tragedy, or
as the authoress stiles it, a Tragi-comedy.
11. Nature's three Daughters, Beauty, Love, and Wit, a Comedy, in two
parts.
12. Presence, a Comedy.
13. Public Wooing, a Comedy, in which the Duke wrote several of the
suitors speeches.
14. Religious, a Tragi-Comedy.
15. Several Wits, a Comedy.
16. Sociable Companions, or the Female Wits, a Comedy.
17. Unnatural Tragedy. Act II. Scene III. the Duchess inveighs against
Mr. Camden's Britannia.
18. Wit's Cabal, a Comedy, in two parts.
19. Youth's Glory, and Death's Banquet, a Tragedy in two parts.
Mr. Lang
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