Abstract

IN LONDON, 1780, there dropped a learned bombshell among the rakes, abandoned and outwardly respectable (the greater part of the population). It was tided: Thelyphthora; or a Treatise on Female Ruin in Its Causes, Effects, Consequences, Prevention, and Remedy; considered on the basis of the Divine Law: under the following heads, viz. Marriage, Whoredom, and Fornication, Adultery, Polygamy, Divorce; with many other incidental matters; particularly including an Examination of the Principles and Tendency of Stat. 26 Geo. II. c. 33. commonly called the Marriage Act. In Two Volumes

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