Subject Heading: English literature > 18th century / Subject (Topic): Riddles

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Creator:: Peach, Miss
Call Number:: Osborn c389
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript, in two hands, of a collection of about 100 word puzzles and riddles, many in verse. The word "fortune," for example, is represented by the following rhyme: "My first is a Preposition/My second a Composition/And the whole an Acquisition." ...
Description:: In English.
Subject (Name):: Peach, Miss.
Subject (Topic):: Charades, English literature, English poetry, Puzzles, Riddles, Women authors, and Word games
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A collection of enigmas, charades, conundrums, &c, 1792 and later

Call Number:: Osborn c578
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: unspecified
Abstract:: Manuscript collection of poems probably compiled by a member of the Tytler family. The poems include many rhyming riddles; epigrams; fables; prologues and epilogues from plays performed in London in the early 1750s; an "Ode on the Eclipse of the Sun J...
Description:: Index in the hand of Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee.
Subject (Topic):: English literature, English poetry, Occasional verse, English, Prologues and epilogues, Riddles, and Solar eclipses
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Miscellan. poems, [1750s].