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 Paris
Contributors: Distaff, Dorothy.; Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 supposed author.
Series: Eighteenth century -- reel 3834, no. 04.
Publisher: printed for W. Boreham
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 23
Notes: Dorothy Distaff, etc. are pseudonyms.

Sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe (Moore, Novak). Attribution disputed by Furbank and Owens, Defoe de-attributions.

Sir R---- St----l = Sir Richard Steele, whose 'Spinster' no.1 is answered by the 'respectful epistle'.

With a half-title.

Moore 424a; Hanson 2647; Goldsmiths' 5650

Microfilm. Woodbridge, CT Research Publications, Inc., 1986. 1 reel ; 35mm. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 3834, no. 04).