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Fowke, Martha, Bond, William, Porter, John. The platonic lovers: consisting of original letters, in prose and verse, that pass'd between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, under the borrow'd Names of Cllo and Strephon; who took an Affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional Compositions. With A Critical Essay; containing some Remarks upon the Nature of Epistolary and Elegiac Poetry; and on the most beautiful Passages in these Epistles. By the Ingenious Mr. John Porter.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 23876, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/23876. Accessed 2025-10-06.

@book{ wphp_23876
  author={Fowke,Martha and Bond,William and Porter,John},
  year={1732},
  title={The platonic lovers: consisting of original letters, in prose and verse, that pass'd between an English lady, and an English gentleman in France, under the borrow'd Names of Cllo and Strephon; who took an Affection to each other, by reading accidentally one another's occasional Compositions. With A Critical Essay; containing some Remarks upon the Nature of Epistolary and Elegiac Poetry; and on the most beautiful Passages in these Epistles. By the Ingenious Mr. John Porter.},
  publisher={John Wilford \& Richard Chandler},
  address={London},    }

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