The Number XIX. Saturday Serial Continues
A note indicates the nineteenth installment of a serialized story will appear again each Saturday. The brief item confirms ongoing publication and reader anticipation for the continuing fiction.
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Newspaper
Old Maid
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 20, 1756
Page
4
Old Matd by Marr Smereton in Cambridge 1756
A fragmentary 18th century letter to Mrs Singleton recounts a conversation about Old Maid status and virtue. The text references Virgil and a warrior woman as part of a literary critique. The dated note from Feb 18 1756 accompanies the fragment, with the writer noting intent to publish it alongside a referenced book.
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Marr Smereton, Spintter
Dryden
Virgil
Mrs. Singleton
Cambridge
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