A Bold Stroke for a Husband. A Comedy. Written by the Ingenious Mrs. Cowley: authoress of The Run-A-Way, Belles-Stratagem, and Which is the Man. And performed forty nights last season at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden.

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Title A Bold Stroke for a Husband. A Comedy. Written by the Ingenious Mrs. Cowley: authoress of The Run-A-Way, Belles-Stratagem, and Which is the Man. And performed forty nights last season at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden.
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Signed Author Written by the Ingenious Mrs. Cowley: authoress of the Run-A-Way, Belles-Stratagem, and Which is the Man.
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Volumes 1
Pagination [4], 53, [1]
Date of Publication 1787
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Date of First Publication 1783
Imprint Printed, by H. Chamberlaine, No. 5, College Grene.
Colophon
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Location of Printing Dublin IE
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
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Notes With a cast list for the Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin.
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Cowley, Hannah. A Bold Stroke for a Husband. A Comedy. Written by the Ingenious Mrs. Cowley: authoress of The Run-A-Way, Belles-Stratagem, and Which is the Man. And performed forty nights last season at the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 3990, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/3990. Accessed 2025-07-24. 

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