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Singerman ID#supp0129

Select Tales, being a Compilation of Singular, Interesting, Remarkable and Authentic Narratives, Ancient and Modern. Selected principally from the most Esteemed and Popular Literary Works, European and American, the Greater Part of which have never been offered to the Public in Book Form.

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Singerman ID#supp0129

Select Tales, being a Compilation of Singular, Interesting, Remarkable and Authentic Narratives, Ancient and Modern. Selected principally from the most Esteemed and Popular Literary Works, European and American, the Greater Part of which have never been offered to the Public in Book Form. Charlottesville, [Va.]: Joseph Martin, 1833. 424 p.

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"The Wife of Seven Husbands: A Legend of Ancient London": pp. [58]-78 (Mrs. Alice, a poisoner of all her previous husbands with lead, had a "rather a Jewish cast of countenance," the result, rumor had it, of an affair between her maternal grandmother and a "young Hebrew"). Bruntjen 21151, Wright I:1819.