Sample Issues. T he wit, tone, and urgency of the original Female Tatler cannot be fully captured through secondary sources. In order to fully understand the periodical, the modern reader must experience it as the eighteenth-century reader did. For this reason, we have included two essays: Issue no. 41 written by Mrs. Crackenthorpe and Issue no. 67 written by Arabella, from the Society of Ladies. Mrs. Crackenthorpe uses the production of a drawing room play as yet another opportunity for satire while Arabella employs a visit to a tea room to make some "observations" about the consumer culture and about Quakers (statements which prove problematic and even disturbing to the twenty-first century reader). Each essay is reproduced here as both a facsimile of the original (as it was bought, sold, and read during 1709-1710) and as a hyper-linked text modernized in grammar and punctuation.
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