The Ladies' Library (1714)
Addison and Steele had in mind some publication such as The Ladies' Library at least three years before it appeared. On April 12, 1711 (No. 37), Addison described in The Spectator the library of a lady called Leonora.[429] She had assembled her books partly in accordance with her own taste, partly on the principle that there were some books no library could do without. The list is an interesting one:
Ogleby's Virgil.
Dryden's Juvenal.
Casandra.
Astræa.
Sir Isaac Newton's Works.
The Grand Cyrus: with a Pin stuck in one of the middle Leaves.
Pembroke's Arcadia.
Lock of Human Understanding: with a Paper of Patches in it.