1787 Dialogues and Letters on Morality For Young Female Minds

by Dorothy Kilner

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Dialogues and Letters on Morality, Economy, and Politeness, for the Improvement and Entertainment of Young Female Minds (Originally in Three Volumes). This is Volume 2, the Second Edition. By Author Dorothy Kilner (who often published under the pseudonym M. or Mary Pelham) Dorothy Kilner published anonymously at first and then under the successive pseudonyms of M. P. and Mary Pelham, in line with general practice for female authors in that period. "M. P." may have referred to her home town of Maryland Point. Both she and her sister-in-law were published by the London firm of John Marshall. Kilner's best-known book was The Life and Perambulation of a Mouse (1784).

• Publisher: John Marshall & Co
• Year: 1787
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair

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