The distress'd orphan; or, Love in a mad house; shewing that she was left with a great fortune to the care of an uncle who would have married her contrary to her inclination, to his own son, and on her refusal to comply, and-having fixed her heart on a colonel, she was sent to a mad-house, where she continued till her faithful lover sham'd himself mad, and by that means obtained her liberty. Interspersed with a great many entertaining letters. Written by herself, after her happy union with the colonel

All titles

• The distress'd orphan; or, Love in a mad house; shewing that she was left with a great fortune to the care of an uncle who would have married her contrary to her inclination, to his own son, and on her refusal to comply, and-having fixed her heart on a colonel, she was sent to a mad-house, where she continued till her faithful lover sham'd himself mad, and by that means obtained her liberty. Interspersed with a great many entertaining letters. Written by herself, after her happy union with the colonel
• Distressed orphan; Love in a mad house

People / Organizations

• Eliza Haywood (Author)
• Thomas Sabine I ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")

Imprint

London : printed and sold by T. Sabine (no, 81,) Shoe Lane, [ca. 1785?]

Added name

Sabine, T. (Thomas), active 18th century-19th century, printer.

Publication year

1785

ESTC No.

T77682

Grub Street ID

299720

Description

60 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Eliza Haywood

Price from imprint in square brackets: Price six-pence

Signatures: a]4] B-G]4] H]2

Signatures and dating from Spedding.

Uncontrolled note

P.35 misnumbered 53