Several Discourses and Characters address'd to the Ladies of the Age. Wherein the Vanities of the Modish Women are discovered.

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ESTC records two settings of the title-page, the present and another with “and are to be sold by Thomas Salusbury…” in the imprint. ESTC seems to be confused by the two title-pages and records duplicate copies. Copies are held at BL, National Library of Ireland, Bodley and Hull in the UK; Folger, Harvard, Huntington, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Newberry, Illinois and University of Pennsylvania, Clark Library UCLCA and Chicago in the USA. Re-published (with additions) in 1696 as part 1 of Discourses and essays useful for the vain modish ladies and their gallants with Boyle given as the author on the title-page and dedicated to Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Northumberland (1646-90). The last copy recorded on Rare Book Hub was sold at Sotheby’s in 1988. A vicious misogynistic attack on the supposed offences of “modish” women lambasting their pride, vanity and inconstancy and the “vain idleness” of their leisure time. Intended to be dedicated to the Countess of Northumberland and written anonymously by Francis Boyle who had himself been cuckolded by Charles II. In his “Epistle to the Modish Ladies of the Age”, the author, Francis Boyle, 1st Viscount Shannon (1623-1699), writes that having abandoned, “the idle follies, and pastimes of a vain London life” and “being displaced from my Military Command”, he decided to write a guide for women (and men) on the supposed vanities, pride and inconstancy of women. Boyle sets out in twelve chapters his thoughts on men marrying “young ha

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