The pseudonym Eugenia, meaning well-born, was fairly common. The Eugenia to whom William Walsh
addressed A Dialogue Concerning Women, Being a Defence of the Sex, 1691, was probably not his sister Olivia
(who...
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1691
William Walsh
published anonymously A Dialogue Concerning Women, Being a Defence of the Sex, Written to Eugenia.
Walsh, William, d. 1708. A Dialogue Concerning Women. Printed for R. Bentley and J. Tonson, 1691.
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Johnson, Samuel. The Lives of the Poets. Editor Lonsdale, Roger, Clarendon Press, 2006, 4 vols.
