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is a successful early example of the "novel of education", "the true paradigm of the central female tradition in the eighteenth-century novel contains the key character type: 'the mistaken heroine who reforms' and learns to appreciate a worthy, if sober, man." Her
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in 1715, it debuted in London at
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