The text belongs to a genre well-known in France as the chronique scandaleuse, and popularised in England through the writings of Madame d'Aulnoy
(who had been much translated, and had already influenced DM
). It...
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Delarivier Manley
Critic Paula McDowell
notes how, in addition to conventional images of authorship as giving birth, the New Atalantis makes extraordinary use of the topos of childbirth, featuring shady midwives and abandoned bastards, and graphically depicted...
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Joan Whitrow
She reminds the professors of religion that your poor Neighbours, many hundreds in City and Country, sits in their Houses with empty Bellies, both of Weavers and others, that knows not which way to shift...
