Defoe, Daniel (1660?-1731)

The Fortunate Mistress [Roxana]

London

Printed for T. Warner

1724

"My Thoughts had for so long time been kept as it were, waking, that almost every-thing gave me the Allarm, and this especially, so that I was very uneasie."

My Thoughts had for so long time been kept as it were, waking, that almost every-thing gave me the Allarm, and this especially, so that I was very uneasie; but I cou'd not bring Matters to bear, to make my coming to London so clear to my Husband as I wou'd have done; for he lik'd the Place, and had a-mind, he said, to stay a little longer, if it was not against my Inclination; so I wrote my Friend the Quaker, Word, That I cou'd not come to Town yet ; and that besides, I cou'd not think of being there under Spies, and afraid to look out-of-Doors; and so, in short, I put off going for near a Fortnight more.
(p. 398, p. 371 in Penguin)

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Reading

At least 15 entries in the ESTC (1724, 1740, 1741, 1742, 1745, 1749, 1750, 1755, 1765, 1774, 1775, ).

See The Fortunate Mistress: Or, A History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, afterwards call'd the Countess de Wintselsheim, in Germany. Being the Person known by the Name of the Lady Roxana, in the Time of King Charles II (London: Printed for T. Warner, 1724). <Link to ESTC><Link to Google Books>

Reading Daniel Defoe, Roxana, ed. David Blewett (New York: Penguin Books, 1987).

As it Were

07/27/2011