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his presentation of the female form
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10271-2 Fashion and Fashion History Size 9 3/4 x 6Edited by Paula R. Backsheider and Hope D. Cotton. Frances Brooke [1724 1789] was a highly successful writer, working in various formats and advancing the novel as a respected form. This novel, Brooke's third, was originally published in 1777 when women authors abounded. She based this plot on courtship novels like those by Frances Burney and Eliza Haywood, but differed in that the heroine of this story, Maria Villiers, is one of the first female