by the author of 'A Tale of the Times', 'A Gossip's Story', etc. In Three Volumes. London. A. Strahan for T.N. Longman & G. Rees. 1802. 3 vols. pp. iv, 306, (ii) of adverts; viii, 345, (iv) of adverts; iv, 346, (ii) of adverts. 12mo. Full calf, respined, unfortunately the calf of the spine does not match that of the boards. Some very minor foxing. Verso front free endpaper inscribe Mary Franks 1805 in each vol. There are no half titles but only one called for in Vol 2. All adverts present. 1st edition. Wollf Vol IV, p 251. In Shattock. Oxford Guide to British Women Writers The Infidel Father is described as attacking ' the tenets of atheism'.Her novel A Tale of the Times (1799) is 'regarded as an implicit attack on William Godwin's 'Political Justice'.

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