It had played at Lincoln's Inn Fields
about a month previously, with a prologue and epilogue by Peter Motteux
(which refer to the hampering of the playwright by the movement for the reformation of the...
Publishing
Mary Davys
A Mrs. Mary D. who published in Peter Motteux
' The Gentleman's Journal a 600-word tale entitled A Gift and no Gift may well have been MD
.
Bayer, Gerd. “A Possible Early Publication by Mary Davys and Its Swiftian Afterglow”. Notes and Queries, Vol.
59
, pp. 194-7.
Textual Features
Mary Pix
The last two acts incorporate two dialogue songs, by Durfey
and Motteux
, set to music by Eccles
.
The London Stage 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1960–1968.
1: 488-9
Timeline
January 1692-October 1694
Peter Anthony Motteux
edited The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany, which combined aspects of the almanac and the periodical, and aimed particularly at women readers.
October 1693
The Gentleman's Diary; or, The Monthly Miscellany (edited by Motteux
) put out an issue devoted to women, entitled The Lady's Journal.