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Fable of the widow and her cat
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Permanent URL	https://digital.nls.uk/85449138
Description	Sometimes attributed to Jonathan Swift. First line reads: A widow kept a favourite cat. In one column. On Queen Anne and the Duke of Marlborough. A variant has "Price one peny" after the imprint.
Shelfmark	Crawford.EB.3511
Additional NLS resources:	Library catalogue record

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1712 [Date printed]
Places:	Europe > United Kingdom > England > Greater London > London (inhabited place) [Place printed]
Subject / content:	Ballads Queens (people) Dukes Fables
Person / organisation:	Anne, Queen of Great Britain, 1665-1714 [Subject of text] Marlborough, John Churchill, Duke of, 1650-1722 [Subject of text] Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 [Author]
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Subject / content:	Ballads
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English ballads
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Description	Collection of 2,300 broadside ballads, mostly printed in England in the 19th century. Topics range from courtship, crime, disasters and emigration to fashion, theatre, politics, laments sports and old age. Includes ballads on Scotland and Ireland. Part of the Crawford Collections on deposit from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.
Attribution and copyright:	Reproduced with permission from materials on loan to the National Library of Scotland from the Balcarres Heritage Trust.

Form / genre:	Miscellaneous > Ephemera > Broadsides
Dates / events:	1800-1900 [Date printed]
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