The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan
, William Lovett
Publishing
Eliza Haywood
Hatchett, Haywood's lover or partner, had already published an original pornographic fiction, The Chinese Tale. Their translation was published on 27 April 1742 as The Sopha: a Moral Tale. Advertisements for The Settee...
Timeline
9 February 1743: Leading trade publisher Thomas Cooper died,...
Writing climate item
9 February 1743
Leading trade publisherThomas Cooper
died, after which his business was taken over by his widow, Mary Cooper
.
