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842 Pages
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Routledge
842 Pages
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Routledge
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The ladies dictionary, being a general entertainment for the fair-sex was published on 19 March 1694 by John Dunton. No compiler was named on the title page, but the dedication by 'the author' addressed 'to the Ladies, Gentlewomen, and Others, of the Fair-Sex' was signed 'N. H.' The book offers around 1950 lexical and encyclopaedic entries, the great majority excerpted either verbatim or with some... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Ladies Dictionary; Being a General Entertainment For the fair-Sex: A work never attempted before in English. London, 1694; Index
Biography
John Considine is Associate Professor of English, University of Alberta, Canada; Sylvia Brown is Associate Professor of English, University of Alberta, Canada
