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Words, Books, Images, and the Long Eighteenth Century: Essays for Allen Reddick
Edited by Antoinina Bevan Zlatar, Mark Ittensohn, Enit Karafili Steiner and Olga Timofeeva
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 16] 2021
► pp. 37–57

John Dunton’s The Ladies Dictionary

Active reading for rational conduct

| University of Geneva
Article outline
  • A proto-feminist text for active readers
  • Great women
  • Fashion and display
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 16 December 2021
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https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.16.03kuk
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