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The betrayed virgin, or, The perjured lover : being a true and melancholy account of Miss Sarah Smithe, a rich farmer's daughter, near Bifield, Warwickshire, famous for her beauty and accomplishments, who was deceived from her parents by W. Jones, esq. who first debauched and then left her to poverty and ruin : so being driven to want and distress, she on Friday last swallowed some poison, and expired in great agonies at 3 o'clock on Saturday morning : likewise copies of two letters, which she wrote a short time before she took the poison, one addressed to her faithless lover, and the other to her sister.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3991.A1 B48 1810
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--19th century.
- English fiction.
- Seduction--Fiction.
- Seduction.
- Suicide--Fiction.
- Suicide.
- Women--Crimes against--Great Britain--Fiction.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 8 pages ; 16 cm
- Other Title:
- Betrayed virgin
- Perjured lover
- Place of Publication:
- Coventry : Turner, printer, [1810?]
- Notes:
- Caption title.
- Woodcut title vignette.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy unbound and unsewn.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: page [4] misprinted with some loss of text.
- OCLC:
- 504804152
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