Her Bread to Earn : Women, Money, and Society from Defoe to Austen.
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TextCopyright date: ©1993Publisher: Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, 1993Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type: - text
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: Introduction -- TWO: "I was become, from a Lady of Pleasure, a Woman of Business, and of great Business too, I assure you. -- THREE: "I have sometimes wished that it had pleased God to have taken me in mylast fever, when I had everybody's love and good opinion. -- FOUR: "with Regard to the young Lady . . . my own Observation assured me that she would be an inestimable Treasure to a good Husband. -- FIVE: "I live in an age when light begins to appear even in regions that have hitherto been thick darkness. -- SIX: "Still she mourned her child, lamented she was a daughter, and anticipated the aggravated ills of life that her sex rendered almost inevitable. -- SEVEN: "He had . . . enough to marry a woman as portionless even as Miss Taylor. -- EIGHT Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.
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