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Emily de Varmont, or Divorce dictated by necessity : to which are added, the amours of Father Sévin / from the French of Louvet ... : in three volumes.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PQ1999.L6 E513 1798 3 v. (v.1-3)
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Louvet de Couvray, Jean-Baptiste, 1760-1797.
- Standardized Title:
- Emilie de Varmont. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Epistolary novels -- France -- 18th century.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for G. Kearsley ..., 1798.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Emilie de Varmont, ou Le divorce nécessaire et les amours du curé Sévin.
- This work "had considerable influence in producing two memorable decrees of the National Convention [of France] the one authorising divorce, the other allowing priests to marry." -- v. 1, verso of half-title.
- An epistolary novel.
- Erratum: v. 3, p. [260]
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) T113664
- English novel, 1770-1829, 1798: 43
- Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), p 144
- OCLC:
- 6896916
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