A Monody to the Memory of a Young Lady Who Died in Child-Bed. by an Afflicted Husband [c. Shaw].
by Anonymous
Title: A Monody to the memory of a young lady who died in child-bed. By an afflicted husband [C. Shaw].
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
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British Library
Anonymous;
1779?
4.
643.k.9.(8.)
Paperback
English
Brand New
Author Biography
The author has decided to remain anonymous because this was the only way she felt completely free to explore a woman's secret life. As she writes in the afterword to the novel, "That doesn't mean this is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not just from my own stories but those of my friends." She was also inspired to embrace anonymity by the book that inspired her own, an anonymous and very daring Elizabethan manuscript entitled "A Woman's Worth.
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