18th Century

The 18th century lasted from January 1, 1701 to December 31, 1800 in the Gregorian calendar.
During the 18th century, the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions.

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Pandora
The Foundling
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Gulliver’s Travels
Robinson Crusoe
The Sorrows of Young Werther
The Castle of Otranto
The Monk
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Moll Flanders
Evelina
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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Sophia Fermor
why it shou'd create more surprise, to see [a lady] preside in a council of war, than in a council of state. Why may she not be as capable of heading an army as a parliament; or of commanding at sea as of reigning at land? What shou'd hinder her from holding the helm of a fleet with the same safety and steadiness as that of a nation? And why may she not exercise her soldiers, draw up her troops in battle array, and divide her forces into battalions at land, squadrons at sea, &c. with the same pl ...more
Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man

Sophia Fermor
Were we [Women] to express our conceptions of God, it wou'd never enter into the head of any one of us to describe him as a venerable old man. ...more
Lady Sophia Fermor, Woman Not Inferior to Man

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