Spedding believes that the original numbers came out more regularly than has sometimes been assumed by commentators. Collected in volume form after two editions in these original numbers, The Female Spectator had nine editions or...
Family and Intimate relationships
William Congreve
Congreve's daughter therefore grew up with the name and identity of Mary Godolphin
, from her supposed and legal father. (Henrietta's title, held in her own right of descent from her famous father, was not...
