An episode in The maid's tragedy: Evadne kills the king in his bed in revenge for his having raped her. Etching by E. Kirkall after F. Boitard.

Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.

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An episode in The maid's tragedy: Evadne kills the king in his bed in revenge for his having raped her. Etching by E. Kirkall after F. Boitard.

Richardson's Clarissa and the eighteenth-century reader / Tom Keymer.