A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bure, Catharine

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4120115A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Bure, Catharine

BURE, CATHARINE,

A learned Swedish lady, whose correspondence with her country-woman, Vandela Skylte, has been printed. It is characterized by elegance of language, correctness of style, and delicacy of expression. She died in 1679, aged seventy-seven.