[Atkyns (Arabella, pseudonym)] The family magazine...Containing useful directions in all the
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[Atkyns (Arabella, pseudonym)] The Family magazine...Containing useful directions in all the branches of house-keeping and cookery...Part II. Containing a compendious body of physick, 2 parts in 1, first edition, double column, a few woodcut bills of fare within text, pagination for pp.81/82 removed with small stab hole, some spotting and staining, lightly browned, contemporary calf, spine in compartments, lacking label, foot of spine and corners worn, rubbed and scuffed, [Bitting p.550; Cagle 673; Maclean p.49; Oxford pp.71-72; Simon BG 658], 8vo, Printed for J. Osborn, at the Golden-Ball in Paternoster-Row, 1741.
⁂ Simon suggests that the author's need for a pseudonym was because she was 'the first woman to dare deal in print with maladies which ladies were not supposed to know anything about'.
⁂ Simon suggests that the author's need for a pseudonym was because she was 'the first woman to dare deal in print with maladies which ladies were not supposed to know anything about'.
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