Female policy detected: or, the arts of a designing woman laid open. By E. W. Author of the London Spy, and Trip to Jamaica. Treating, I. Of her Allurements, Inconstancy, Love, Revenge, Pride, and Ingratitude. II. A pleasant and profitable Discourse in Defence of married Men, against peevish, fretful, scolding Wives, with several notable Examples of the Mischiess and Miseries which have attended their Lust and Pride. III. A true Character of a virtuous Woman, or Wife indeed. With a poetical Description of a Widow, Wife and Maid. To which is added, the celebrated poem, entitled, The pleasures of a single life: or, the miseries of matrimony. By Sir John Dillon, Knt.

People / Organizations

• Edward Ward (Author)

Imprint

London: printed and sold by the booksellers, 1787-88.

Publication year

1787-1788

ESTC No.

T78257

Grub Street ID

300123

Description

180p. ; 12⁰

Note

Dedication signed: E. Ward.

'The pleasures of a single life: .. ' has separate titlepage, dated 1788, but the pagination and register are continuous.