Author: Hopkinson, Francis. [Peter Grievous, pseud]
Title: A Pretty Story Written in the Year of Our Lord, 2774, by Peter Grievous, Esquire, A.B. C.D. E.
Description: Williamsburg, Printing Office of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1971. Limited Facsimile Edition. Stitched paper wrappers. 16 pp. 4to. Originally printed by John Pinkney, for the benefit of Clementina Rind's children, in 1774. Clementina was Williamsburg's only woman printer. Third in a series of reprints issued by the Printing Office of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. A political satire on the administration of the British colonies in North America, and the causes of the Revolution (see Sabin 32980, Evans 13340 for original). Faint soiling, else a fine copy.

Keywords: Women, , Americana, Colonial & Early America, Women, Americana, 19th c., Satires, Colonial America, American Revolution, Fiction, Pamphlet


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