Eighteenth-century women’s magazines

Abstract

In 1745, a correspondent to The Female Spectator wrote seeking advice from its editorial board on the respective merits of three suitors for her hand. Bellamonte opens her letter with the declaration:

Dear Female Sage, I have a vast opinion of your Wit; and you may be convinced of it by my asking your Advice; — a compliment, I assure you, I never paid to my own Mother, or to any other Soul besides yourself. (vol. 2, p. 105)