Essays, Religious, Moral, Dramatic & Poetical, Addressed to Youth; and published for a benevolent purpose. By a lady.

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Title Essays, Religious, Moral, Dramatic & Poetical, Addressed to Youth; and published for a benevolent purpose. By a lady.
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Volumes 1
Pagination iv, 6-242
Date of Publication 1818
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Imprint Printed by Archibald E. Miller, Queen-Street, near the N.W. corner of Meeting Street
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Location of Printing Charleston US
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Notes Pagination skips from 168 to 170, pages missing between 207 and 212.
AAS Notes: Attributed to Maria Henrietta Pinckney by Robert J. Turnbull in his Bibliography of South Carolina, 1563-1950 (1956), v. 2, p. 35, and by Frank P. Hill in his American plays printed 1714-1830 (1943), p. 87. However, the title was entered for copyright by the clerk of the District of South Carolina on Oct. 28, 1818, as by "Miss Pogson ... author and proprietor." See Kable, William S. "South Carolina District copyrights: 1794-1820" in Proof: the yearbook of American bibliographical and textual studies (1971), v. 1, p. 181 and 197.
"Coppy [sic] right secured according to law."--verso of title page.
Dedicated to Miss Maria Middleton.
Last page blank.
"Subscribers names."--p. [243].
"Errata."--p. [245].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Stoddard, R.E. Catalogue of books and pamphlets unrecorded in Oscar Wegelin's Early American poetry, 1650-1820,
Stoddard, R.E. Bibliographical description of books and pamphlets of American verse printed from 1610 through 1820,
Essays -- The young Carolinians; or, Americans in Algiers. A play in five acts -- A tyrant's victims, a tragedy, in five acts. Dedication to Edward Pinckney, the youthful son of a genuine patriot ... -- The orphans, a play, in five acts -- Poetical.
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American Antiquarian Society copy lacks leaf S2 (blank?); stub present. Annotated: A gift.
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Smith, Sarah Pogson, Pinckney, Maria Henrietta. Essays, Religious, Moral, Dramatic & Poetical, Addressed to Youth; and published for a benevolent purpose. By a lady.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 19889, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/19889. Accessed 2025-10-29. 

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  year={1818},
  title={Essays, Religious, Moral, Dramatic & Poetical, Addressed to Youth; and published for a benevolent purpose. By a lady.},
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