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Title proper from title frame.;Mode of access: World Wide Web.;Foreword; Introduction; The Ladies Defence: Or, The Bride-Woman's Counsellor Answer'd; Poems on Several Occasions; The Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd; Essays upon Several Subjects in Prose and Verse; Index of First Lines of Poems.;Print version record.;Description based on print version record. The first edition of the collected poetry and prose of the Restoration feminist, Mary, Lady Chudleigh (1656-1710), this volume includes The Ladies Defence as well as her final prose meditations. New biographical and bibliographical information in the Introduction revises the existing accounts of her life and literary career. The volume makes available for the first time the complete range of Chudleigh's literary experiments and calls for a reassessment of the image of the woman writer of the Restoration. A friend of John Dryden and Mary Astell, Chudleigh experimented with a variety of literary.