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Employer Sally Purcell
SP lived by an odd combination of freelance, low-paying jobs. In her editor's words, Oxford allowed her to scrape a living on its fringes, not always congenially.
Jay, Peter, and Sally Purcell. “Foreword and Note on the Text”. Collected Poems, edited by Peter Jay and Peter Jay, Anvil Press Poetry, 2002, pp. 19-24.
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She held indoor and outdoor jobs, in...
Publishing Françoise de Graffigny
FG minutely revised the novel, adding three additional letters and a historical introduction, in a second edition, 1752. It was translated as Letters Written by a Peruvian Princess, 1748, and in later versions, including...

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Graffigny, Françoise de. Françoise de Graffigny: choix de lettres. Editor Showalter, English, Voltaire Foundation, 2001.
Showalter, English. Françoise de Graffigny: her life and works. Voltaire Foundation, 2004.
Staves, Susan. “French fire, English asbestos: Ninon de Lenclos and Elizabeth Griffith”. Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Vol.
314
, Voltaire Foundation, 1993, pp. 193-04.