Gossip in a Library
Excerpt: ...Yet she probably numbered more readers, for a year or two, than any other person in the British realm. She poured forth what she called little Performances from a tolerably respectable press; and the wonder is that in these days her abundant writings are so seldom to be met with. The secret doubtless is that her large public consisted almost wholly of people like Ann Lang. Eliza was read by servants in the kitchen, by seamstresses, by basket-women, by 'prentices of all sorts, male and female, but mostly the latter. For girls of this sort there was no other reading of a light kind in 1724. It was Eliza Haywood or nothing. The men o…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-62494-7
- EAN: 9781153624947
- Produktnummer: 14787791
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 52 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D0.3 cm 122 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 122
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