The fortunate country maid, or, Memoirs of the Marchioness of L-- V-- / translated from the French of the Chevalier de Mouhy ; in two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mouhy, Charles de Fieux, chevalier de, 1701-1784, author.

Contributor:

Harrison and Co. (London, England), bookseller.

Standardized Title:

Paysanne parvenue. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationship--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Man-woman relationship.

Poor women--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Poor women.

Social conflict--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Social conflict.

Social mobility--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Social mobility.

French fiction--Translations into English--Early works to 1800.

French fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Barker, Anne (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

290 pages, VI leaves of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Fortunate country maid

Memoirs of the Marchioness of L-- V--

Fingerprint:

reak gee. 'sas 'l'd (3) 1782 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Harrison and Co. no. 18, Paternoster-Row, MDCCLXXXII [1782]

Language Note:

English translation of: La paysanne parvenue.

Notes:

Signatures: A-2N⁴ 2O1.

The second volume has a caption title on leaf T4r (page [151]); signatures and pagination are continuous.

Engraved illustrations (plates).

Type ornament title ornament and head-pieces.

Text printed in double columns.

"Also issued as part of: 'The novelist's magazine' vol. 7, London, 1780-88"--ESTC.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy has early manuscript note ("my dear Lady") on verso of back free endpaper.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has early autograph ("Anne Barker") on front free endpaper; largely illegible early autograph ("Esther[?] [...]"), struck through, on front free endpaper.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Cited in:

ESTC T91052

OCLC:

5297729