Modern amours. Written by a gentlewoman. Part I.

ID 24747
Title Modern amours. Written by a gentlewoman. Part I.
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Signed Author Written by a gentlewoman.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 166
Date of Publication 1733
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Date of First Publication 1733
Imprint printed by Austin Weddell, against Catherine-Street, in the Strand,
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Location of Printing London GB
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Notes ESTC Notes: A gentlewoman = Lydia Grainger.
Identified as Curll's publication by Straus, who dates it to 3 February 1733.
Reissued in the same year, with the addition of the key and without the printer's name, as: Modern amours: or, A secret history of the adventures of some persons of the first rank. (ESTC T67634)
Reissued in 1739 with title: New court tales, or Modern amours (ESTC N72133).
No more appears to have been published.
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Grainger, Lydia. Modern amours. Written by a gentlewoman. Part I.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 24747, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/24747. Accessed 2025-08-23.

Grainger , L. (1733). Modern amours. written by a gentlewoman. part i. London: Edmund Curll [Strand]

Grainger, Lydia. Modern amours. Written by a gentlewoman. Part I. London: Edmund Curll [Strand], 1733. 

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  author={Grainger,Lydia},
  year={1733},
  title={Modern amours. Written by a gentlewoman. Part I.},
  publisher={Edmund Curll [Strand]},
  address={London},    }

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