Pope's thesis here (for which he evades responsibility by attributing it to Blount
) is that women are too changeable to have any lasting character or personality. The fickleness of women was of course a...
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Alexander Pope
It was originally published as Of the Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady, but the title has generally been reversed in conformity with the order of the titles of its three companion...
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Eliza Haywood
It is not clear whether a first edition was published and read out of existence; in any case, no known copy survives. It may be that the collection's first appearance was the one called the...
