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… types, most notably when children were playing or when women were working. For instance, in 1785, the bluestocking Frances Boscawen recommended James Boswell ’s Tour of the Hebrides as an excellent book to listen to while doing knotting … most popular epistolary novels of the time, from Richardson ’s Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa (1748) to Frances Burney ’s Evelina (1778), apart from displaying the action and characters’ through exchanges in a letter form, …
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