Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.
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With only one play before the public, she was quite gently handled in The Female Wits, a satire on women playwrights which was staged in...
Literary responses
Catharine Trotter
Genest
liked this no better than CT
's other plays, finding it unnatural. Recent commentators have in this case been no more favourable, Nancy Cotton
finding it priggish and Robert Humesentimental mush.
qtd. in
Clark, Constance. Three Augustan Women Playwrights. Peter Lang, 1986.