‘Nice and curious questions’: Coffee houses and the representation of women in john dunton’s athenian mercury

Seventeenth Century

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 257-276

  Berry, Helen ^a  

^a JESUS COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85010483252     PISSN: 0268117X     EISSN: 20504616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0268117X.1997.10555432     Document Type: Article

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