A title too good not to share, complete with a former owner’s drawings of perhaps his or her o
A title too good not to share, complete with a former owner’s drawings of perhaps his or her own personal Blunderella. Its verse, however, leaves a lot to be desired:Blunderella Idol of the Vain/ And first in the Loquacious Train/ In all things ignorant and weak/ Yet on all Subjects would she speak …Part of a collection of 28 poems bound together in a single volume, the earliest being a copy of Charles Hardy’s Bacchanalia: or a description of a drunken club (1680).Blunderella is book-ended by two anonymous poems: The Cambridge election. A new ballad (1729) and Female chastity, truth and sanctity: a satire (1734).–Henry Carey, Blunderella: or, the impertinent. A tale … London: printed for A. Dodd, 1730; Alexander Turnbull Library, fREng DARBY Bacc 1680. -- source link
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