The female manufacturers complaint: being the humble petition of Dorothy Distiff, Abigail Spinning-Wheel, Eleanor Reel, &c. spinsters, to the Lady Rebecca Woollpack. With a respectful epistle to Sir R---- St----l, ... By Monsieur de Brocade of P
Distaff, Dorothy.
Defoe, Daniel,1661?-1731,attributed name.
London : printed for W. Boreham,
1720.
Dorothy Distaff, etc. are pseudonyms.
Sir R---- St----l = Sir Richard Steele, whose 'Spinster' no.1 is answered by the 'respectful epistle'.
Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.
With a half-title.
ESTC
Goldsmiths',
Hanson,
Moore,