The editor (Edward Thompson
) denied this charge in his Acknowledgements to Correspondents that month.
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By September 1761
Edward Thompson
published a scurrilous poem, The Meretriciad.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
12 (1762): 201-3
Crouch, Kimberly. “The public life of actresses: prostitutes or ladies?”. Gender in Eighteenth-Century England: Roles, Representations and Responsibilities, edited by Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus, Longman, 1997, pp. 58-78.
