The Fair Jilt


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The story of a charming, daring, and determined lady who contemplates even murder to attain her love. It is all in vain, however, and her love transforms later into aggressive hatred. These Orders are taken up by the best Persons of the Town, young Maids of Fortune, who live together, not inclos'd, but in Palaces that will hold about fifteen hundred or two thousand of these Fille-Devotes, where they have a regulated Government, under a sort of Abbess, or Prioress; or rather, a Governante. They are oblig'd to a Method of Devotion, and are under a sort of Obedience.




The Works of Aphra Behn


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The Works of Aphra Behn


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The Works of Aphra Behn: v. 3: Fair Jill and Other Stories


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Aphra Behn (1640-1689) was one of the most successful dramatists of the Restoration theatre and a popular poet. This is the third volume in a set of seven which comprises a complete edition of all her works.







The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V


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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.







The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V


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The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V includes the following: THE BLACK LADY - THE KING OF BANTAM THE UNFORTUNATE HAPPY LADY - THE FAIR JILT OROONOKO - AGNES DE CASTRO THE HISTORY OF THE NUN - THE NUN THE LUCKY MISTAKE - THE UNFORTUNATE BRIDE THE DUMB VIRGIN - THE WANDERING BEAUTY THE UNHAPPY MISTAKE