The Trifler provides the magazine’s frame narrative, structuring the Lady’s Museum through an eidolon. This eidelon, or persona for the magazine, grounds the historical, geographical and intellectual content into readers’ contemporary realities, communicating the relevance and significance of the content for readers.
CAST your eyes upon paper, madam; there you may lock innocently, said a polite old gentleman of my acquaintance to me, one day, in the […]
FROM the account I have already given of my temper and inclinations, it will be readily supposed that the love of power, which our great […]
MADAM, WHEN ‘squire Bickerstaff, in the time of our mothers, such a time as, if their accounts may be trusted, is never likely to return, […]
MADAM, IAM one of your readers, and bear you that sort of good will which we naturally feel for persons who contribute to our amusement. […]
MADAM, THE gaiety with which you set out in your first paper, and the agreeable manner in which you acknowledge your fondness for admiration, persuaded […]
THE Arabian proverb, Shut the windows that the house may be light, is supposed to contain some great mystery; and indeed it must be confessed that it […]
MADAM, I Thank you for publishing the letter signed Perdita: it was a prelude to my unhappy story, which I am desirous the world should […]
MADAM, I Take up my pen once more to give you the remainder of my sad story; and am pleased to find that many of […]
MADAM, AS you confess that you are not superior to trifles, will you accept of a trifling criticism, which if honoured with a place in […]
MADAM, ONE of your correspondents having given you a most entertaining account of the fair and unfortunate Bianca Capello, give me leave to offer at […]
MADAM, IF the title of a literary performance contributes much to excite the curiosity of the public, I can well suppose that the Trifler is […]
Dear Mrs. TRIFLER, I Cannot help suspecting that you artfully mean to cajole your fair readers into sense and seriousness, and that you only bait […]
MADAM, IN a life of sixty-four years, alas how times are altered! when I was young, what dread and reverence were paid to omens, dreams, […]
To the AUTHOR of the TRIFLER. MADAM, MY brother, who is a great scholar, and writes A. M. after his name, desires me to acquaint […]
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