 Title page of John Duncombe's The Feminead (1754), 2nd edition (1757)(Google Books) | |
| Author | John Duncombe |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | London: M. Cooper (1st edition); R. & J. Dodsley (2nd edition) |
Publication date | 1754; rpt. 1757 |
| Publication place | Britain |
John Duncombe (1729-1786) published his "canon-forming"[1] celebration of British women writers as The Feminiad in 1754, though the title was revised as The Feminead in the second, 1757 edition.
- ^ Landry, Donna. “The traffic in women poets.” The Eighteenth Century, vol. 32, no. 2, 1991, pp. 180–92. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/41467517. Accessed 24 Jun. 2022.