The Female manufacturers complaint
Subtitle: being the humble petition of Dorothy Distaff, Abigail Spinning-Wheel, Eleanor Reel, &c. spinsters, to the Lady Rebecca Woollpack ; with, A respectful epistle to Sir R---- St----l, concerning some omissions of the utmost importance in his Lady's wardrobe
By: by Monsieur de Brocade of Paris
Contributors: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Women and Transnational Networks
Publisher: Printed for W. Boreham at the Angel in Pater-Noster Row
Published: 1720
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Weavers; Early works to 1800; Woolen and worsted manufacture
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.

Reproduction of the original from the Smith College Library.