This work collects the 32 papers which Bernard Mandeville (1670-1733), author of "The Fable of the Bees" (1st ed., 1714), contributed to "The Female Tatler" (1709-10), one of the many imitators of Richard Steele's "Tatler".

The collection should be of interest to scholars of 18th-century literature, history, political and economic thought, women's studies and philosophy.

Introduction: Mandeville in Holland
London physician and fabulist
female dialogues
Richard Steele, Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. and "The Tatler"
Mrs Crackenthorpe, the "Society of Ladies", Abigail Baldwin and "The Female Tatler"
the Lucinda-Artesia papers. A note on the text
text of the Lucinda-Artesia papers in "The Female Tatler".