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Amusements, Serious and Trivial by Tom Brown

The London Spy by Ned Ward

Perigrinations by William Hogarth

The Nun by Aphra Behn

The Secret History of Queen Zarah by Delarivier Manley 

Love Intrigues by Jane Barker

The Strange Adventures of the Count de Vinevil by Penelope Aubin

The Reformed Coquette by Mary Davys

Extracts from Friendship in Death by Elizabeth Singer Rowe

The English Recluse by Eliza Haywood

Fantomina by Eliza Haywood

Love in Excess by Eliza Haywood

Anti-Pamela by Eliza Haywood

Something New Part two by Automathes (which I read first)

Something New Part one by Automathes (which I read second)


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