“The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, – – from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she.”

“The gay world has been kept in hot water lately by the impudent publication of the celebrated Harriet Wilson, – – from earliest possibility, I suppose, who lived with half the gay world at hack and manger, and now obliges such as will not pay hushmoney with a history of whatever she.”

— Walter Scott