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Nationality of Author:
"Irish or Anglo-Irish"
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Genre:
"Prose Fiction"
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Literary Period:
"Augustan"
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"Early Modern"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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Work title:
"The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel"
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Metaphor Category:
"Writing"
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Date: 1724
"If I have here touch'd a young Lady's Vanity and Levity, it was to show her how beautiful she is without those Blots, which certainly stain the Mind, and stamp Deformity where the greatest Beauties would shine, were they banish'd."
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)
Date: 1724
A "Man that wou'd please [a pedant], must pore an Age over musty Authors, till his Brains are as worm-eaten as the Books he reads, and his Conversation fit for no body else"
preview | full record— Davys, Mary (1674-1732)