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Eugenia declares at the outset of her work, "If you inquire who I am, I shall only tell you in general, that I am one that never yet came within the
Clutches of a Husband; and therefore what I write may be the more favourably interpreted as not coming from a Party concern'd." It is clear from the
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work that she knows some Latin and Greek and a little about the world. She states that not even in Italy and Spain do men demand of their wives "a
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The
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