"Oh had I known it sooner, engaged as I then was to one, who well deserved my love, could I have guessed miss Betsy Thoughtless was the contriver of that tender fraud, I know not what revolution might have happened in my heart! the empire you had there, was never totally extirpated, and kindness might have regained what cruelty had lost."
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless
9 entries in the ESTC (1751, 1752, 1762, 1765, 1768, 1772, 1783).<br>
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See Eliza Haywood, <u>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, In Four Volumes</u> (London: Printed by T. Gardner, 1751). &lt;<a href="http://estc.bl.uk/T73274">Link to ESTC</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW3313758101&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless</u>, ed. Christine Blouch (Peterborough: Broadview, 1998).