The life of the late celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, vulgarly call'd, Mother Wybourn; containing secret memoirs of several ladies of the first q-ty, who held an assembly at her house. Together with her last will and testament. By Anodyne Tanner, M.D. author of the P-c-l Sch-e, &c. and one of her physicians in ordinary. The third edition, corrected. To which is added, Table talk: being some select discourses and sayings of Mrs. Wisebourn; faithfully collected from a manuscript in her own hand-writing, found in her closet since her decease

People / Organizations

• Anodyne Tanner (Author)
• A. Moore (pseud.) ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's, 1721.

Publication year

1721

ESTC No.

T169085

Grub Street ID

206934

Description

vi, 50 p. ; 8°.

Note

Anodyne Tanner is a pseudonym

A satire. "A purportedly biographical account of the notorious London bawd [Elizabeth Wisebourn]"-- Smith, Sharon. "Defoe's The Complete English Tradesman and the Prostitute Narrative: Minding the Shop in Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, Sally Salisbury, and Roxana." Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 15 no. 2, 2015, p.33

The bookseller's name in the imprint is fictitious. See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43

Below imprint: (Price one shilling.)

Uncontrolled note

See Treadwell, M.: 'Of false and misleading imprints'. In: 'Fakes and frauds', 1989, pp. 41-43