"In short, every thing we do, you construe to your own advantage: if we look easy and pleas'd in your Company, we are certainly in Love; if grave and reserv'd, 'tis to hide our Love; thus you all imagine we are fond of gaining a Conquest over a Heart, which when we have got it, is perhaps so very trifling, that we dispose of it at last, as we do of our old Gowns, give it away to our Chamber-Maid."
The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel
At least 9 entries in ESTC (1724, 1725, 1735, 1736, 1744, 1752, 1760, 1763).<br>
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Mary Davys, <u>The Reform'd Coquet; a Novel. by Mrs. Davys, Author of the Humours of York.</u> (London: London: Printed by H. Woodfall, for the Author; and sold by J.Stephens, 1724). &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&contentSet=ECCOArticles&type=multipage&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docId=CW109229140&source=gale&userGroupName=viva_uva&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=NdPWQAAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from <u>The Works of Mrs. Davys: Consisting of, Plays, Novels, Poems, and Familiar Letters. Several of which never before Publish'd.</u> 2 vols. (London: printed by H. Woodfall, for the author and sold by J. Stevens, 1725). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=QhQUOgAACAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading in <u>Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730</u>, eds. Paula Backscheider and John Richetti (Oxford UP, 1996).