The London Jilt (Broadview Editions)
"Somewhere between Chaucer's Wife of Bath and Defoe's Moll Flanders comes The London Jilt—a lively, first-person voice who tells of her sexual adventures and economic trickeries in the city she seems to embody. This rare anonymous novel, previously known only to specialists in low-libertine literature, now appears in Charles Hinnant's masterly edition, with a brilliant selection of comparable picaresque episodes from Don Quixote onwards. The sympathetic and learned introduction brings out the inventiveness of this rude, resourceful narrator as she negotiates the murky space between respectable marriage and abject whoredom." (James Grantham Turner)