Date: 1737
"Her lovely image, on his mind impress'd, / Had fix'd her empire in his yielding breast."
preview | full record— Rowe [née Singer], Elizabeth (1674-1737)
Date: 1792
"This habitual slavery, to first impressions, has a more baneful effect on the female than the male character, because business and other dry employments of the understanding, tend to deaden the feelings and break associations that do violence to reason."
preview | full record— Wollstonecraft, Mary (1759-1797)