Third edition, 1759; new version in The Children’s Miscellany, 1787; Children’s chap-book in Dutch flowered boards, c. 1789: The English Hermit; or, The Adventures of Philip Quarll, “who was lately discovered by Mr. Dorrington, a Bristol Merchant, upon an uninhabited Island, where he has lived above fifty years, without any human assistance, still continues to reside and will not come away. Adorned with cuts and a Map of the Island”. London, John Marshall. Price Six Pence bound and gilt. (Inscribed “Margaret H. Haskoll, (Au. 14th, 1789).”) Other editions: 1795, 1807, 1816.
The 1807 edition, repeated in Newcastle, York and Banbury chap-books, has cuts attributed to Bewick.
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The Life and Adventures of a Fly, “supposed to have been written by himself”. Price Sixpence. (E. Newbery’s list, 1789.)
Another edition, with cuts by John Bewick, was printed in 1790 (Bewick Collector).
The Young Misses’ Magazine was reviewed in the Critical Review, Aug., 1757. It consists of “Dialogues of a wise Governess with her Pupils”, and was almost certainly inspired by Miss Fielding’s Governess. The studies of Madame de Beaumont’s pupils, under the names of Ladi Sensée, Ladi Spirituelle, Ladi Tempête, etc., although they represent types, are made from life.
Madame de Beaumont also wrote “Moral Tales”, designed to counteract supposed dangers in Richardson’s novels. “The whole,” she says, “is drawn from the pure source of Nature, which never fails to move the heart.”