The distress'd orphan; or, Love in a mad house; shewing that she was left with a great fortune to the care of an uncle who would have married her contrary to her inclination, to his own son, and on her refusal to comply, and-having fixed her heart on a colonel, she was sent to a mad-house, where she continued till her faithful lover sham'd himself mad, and by that means obtained her liberty. Interspersed with a great many entertaining letters. Written by herself, after her happy union with the colonel.
- Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756.
- Date:
- [ca. 1785?]
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Also known as
Distressed orphan
Love in a mad house
Publication/Creation
London : printed and sold by T. Sabine (no, 81,) Shoe Lane, [ca. 1785?]
Physical description
60 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 80.
References note
ESTC T77682
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.