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First edition of this epistolary work on female virtues and relations between the sexes, attributed to the journalist François Bruys (1708-1738). It includes two alphabetical ‘catalogues’ of distinguished female writers, and ends with a lists of authors who have published works on women.

Only one copy on Library Hub, at the British Library.

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