The life of Madame de Beaumount, a French lady : who lived in a cave in Wales above fourteen years undiscovered, being forced to fly France for her religion, and of the cruel usage she had there : also her lord’s adventures in Muscovy where he was a prisoner some years, with an account of his returning to France, and her being discover’d by a Welsh gentleman, who fetch’d her lord to Wales : and of many strange accidents which befel them, and their daughter Belinda, who was stolen away from them : and of their return to France in the year 1718 (1721).
The title page alone makes me breathless.
Parece que houve muitas mulheres a publicar livros assim no século XVIII. No Brasil conheço As aventuras de Diófanes. Embora seja certamente mais ruinzinho. E o plot se passasse na Tebas antiga. Ah, me deixa — que ainda aposto ter sido uma espécie de gênero: livros de aventuras escritos por mulheres.
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