The first volume in its first edition cost five shillings.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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The work consists chiefly of familiar letters with poems interspersed. The extended title, however, Pylades and Corinna: or, Memoirs of the Lives, Amours, and...
Textual Production
Elizabeth Thomas
ET wrote a panegyric on the new Duchess of Somerset
.
Thomas, Elizabeth, 1675 - 1731, and Richard Gwinnett. Pylades and Corinna. 1731.
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Wealth and Poverty
Elizabeth Thomas
She did not actually get out until mid-1730, presumably because some prison fees remained unpaid. From mid-April she either sought support or recorded past support from Sir Joseph Jekyll
, Lord
and Lady De La Warr