It was published by 30 January 1696, as written by a Young Lady, with a dedication to Lord Dorset
and a commendatory poem by Delarivier Manley
which described CT
as the heir to both...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Tollet
A New Ballad (like almost all answers to Lord Dorset
's cavalier ballad To all You Ladies now at Land) is written from a strongly gender-conscious point of view as well as a Tory...