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"Population"
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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Author name:
"Davys, Mary (1674-1732)"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Literary Period:
"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Prose Fiction"
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Date: 1724
"Vanity is a lurking subtile Thief, that works itself insensibly into our Bosoms, and while we declare our dislike to it, know not 'tis so near us; every body being (as a witty Gentleman has somewhere said) provided with a Racket to strike it from themselves."
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