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Rh reckoned much inferior to her elegies, which abound in wit, delicacy, and fine turn of sentiment. Her poems are collected and printed with those of Pelisson and Mad. de Scudery, at Treyoux, 1725, in four volumes, 12 mo. .

with her mother was an inmate in the house of Bishop Seeker, wrote Essays, in two volumes, and other works. painting by her diligent pencil, and added lustre to the catalogue of Venetian female painters.

, upon consulting the oracle about her health, being advised to betake herself to the study of the Muses, rendered her country illustrious by her writings, and saved it by her courage. The city was on the point of falling into the hands of the Lacedemonians: it had lost six thousand men, among whom were the flower of its youth. Telesilla collected the women most proper to second her designs, furnished them with arms, which she