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Lady Grace Gethin (née Norton) (1676–1697) was an English essayist, poet, and medical receipt writer. She is best known for her collection of commonplaced essays, Misery’s Virtues Whet-stone. Reliquiæ Gethinianæ. Or Some Remains of the Most Ingenious and Excellent Lady, Grace Lady Gethin. Lately Deceased (1699), a text in which she discusses a wide range of topics ranging from reading practices to the point of pleasure.
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Andrea, Bernadette. 2003. “Introductory Note.” Grace Norton (Gethin) and Frances (Freke) Norton, edited by Bernadette Andrea, ix. Early Modern Englishwoman. Printed Writings, 1641–1700, Series 2, Part 2, 9 vols. Aldershot: Ashgate.
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Wilkinson-Turnbull, B. (2022). Gethin, Grace. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01537-4_176-1
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