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While Miss Margaret Bondfield is Married at 18, Mary soon learn. In her day she was "best being acclaimed as the first womaned that her husband" had a real seller," exploiting contemporary Cabinet Minister, it is interesting wife still alive; then she quarrelled scandal by writing of the intrigues to recall that women entered the with the Duchess of Cleveland, of living people as though they froat literary rank two centuries under whose wing she had been belonged to some kingdom of ago, writes Graham Brooks in received; and so she took to her romance, in the way that had been John o London's Weekly.

pen for a livelihood. Having writ- | 10 successfuly inaugurated. by ten "a play, she proceeded ener Mary Mauley, Curionely, she Betically to oc and flatter Sir claimed to be a writer with a moral Thomas Skipworth, of Drury Lane purpose. Theatre, to whom she wrote:-

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The first professional authors of England are portrayed in Walter and Clare Jerrold's Five Queer Womica" (Brentano's).

Aphra Behn, who wrote poems, amorous novels, and 17 plays, all marked with the characteristic ob- scenity of the Restoration, acted as a secret service agent in Antwerp, pined inside a debtor's prison, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Her sojourn in Antwerp was dis- 1 astrous.

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Of the blest nymph you worship

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Skipworth was delighted, and produced her play, which, however, was damned On the dret night. Borrowed Money,

"I am satisfied," she wreta, "the Sent by Charles II. to find Wil-bare fact of its being a woman's liam Scott and induce him, through play damned it beyond its want of his attachment to her, to become merit." a spy in Holland, she achieved this object, and also, it is alleged, suc- ·

Her private life was none too happy. She ran away from her husband, and afterwards maintain- ed a protracted quarrel with the poet Richard Savage, which arone out of her publication of the story of his origin,

Of Letitia Pilkington,

whom Dean Swift affectionately dubbed his "insolent alut," it may be said that bad she married a man of ordinary virtue and stable position, it is probable that no one apart from her immediate friends would have heard of her, except as a verse-maker; for the hud what her husband called an insatiable itch for, writing.

A Cantankerous Clergyman. The tragedy of her life lay in ber marriage with a man whose attain. respect, and in the further fact that she had bad the greater talent

eeeded in warning the Government already had six plays. produced ments ran with her own in this

of the proposed Dutch raid on the Thames described so vividly by Pepys, but, despite these services and her frantic appeals, no money arrived for her expenses, and 'she had to borrow £160 from a money- leader to get home from Antwerp.

For months her appeals to the Court remained unanswered, and its was not until the irate asurer flung her into prison that the King gave orders for her debt to be paid.

Mary Manley also tasted prison life, being committed in 1709 for attacking members of the Govern- ment in print The first woman to pillory edantemporary Society, her collection of novels. "whe thorough-going exhibition of other folks' dirty linen, only possibly the linen was neither quite so torn, nor quite so dirty as it was represent- ed to be

Corrupt Society..

A Writer from Necessity. By 1708 Susanna Centlivre had with reasonable success: Necessity had driven her also to her pen. Married at 16, she had taken for ber second husband one Captain Carell, who was killed in a duel and left her penaïless.

But she was not long in winning success with her plays, the first being prefaced with a defence of

Undoubtedly the Rev. Matthew Pilkington was jealous of his wife's genius. Moreover, he was not a kindly man, not even to his own children; he whipped the girl severely because she resembled her grandmother, and then whipped the poor little boy for being like him- self."

coarseness of expression as being accessary to the proper

Oɑ one occasion he disappeared presentation of the characters." for two months, leaving nota Her seventh play was, however, single shilling for his household. rejected, and Susanna, piqued, Finally there was a divorce, and turned actress and produced the Letitia Sived by her pen, opening play herself.

a shop, in the window of which she displayed a notice :-

When performing at Windsor Castle, Susanna" so captivated a member of the audience that they were married shortly after. This was Joseph Centlivre, no lesa a a person than Yeomna of the Mouth to Her Majesty in other words, Queen Anne's cook!

"It purported to be done through a virtuous desire to reform public morals. Society had become so corrupt that it was not only neces- sary but kind to let it ses itself face to face,"

Pilloried by Pope. Eliza Haywood owes her im- mortality chiefly to Pope, who pilloried her in the. "Dunciad":-

See in the circle next, Eliza

placed;

Two babes of love close clinging.

to her waist;: Fair as before her Works she

standa confessed

In flowered brocade by bounté.

ous Kirkall dressed.

LETTERS WRITTEN HERE. ON ANY SUBJECT EXCEPT THE LAW. PRICE TWELVE- PENCE. PETITIONS ALSO, DRAWN AT THE SAME RATE. MEM: READY MONEY: NO TRUST." She wrote poems and importaned the aristocracy to buy them. But the cost of gaining admittance was too high-

"If one needs anything from a great man, the expenses are as follows: Pen, ink, and paper, Iid.; someone to find if his lord- ship is at home, ls,; hall porter, 10s, 8d. valet, 21 is. Od.; foot. man with the answers, 58.; total, £1 178, 7}d.-a high percentage to pay for a gift of five guineas!" Well, well! They were queer women, and queer times.

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