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<p> Perhaps the first extended non-fiction prose satire written by an English woman, Jane Collier’s An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting (1753) is a wickedly satirical send-up of eighteenth-century advice manuals and educational tracts. It takes the form of a mock advice manual in which the speaker instructs her readers in the arts of tormenting, offering advice on how to torment servants, humble companions and spouses, and on how to bring one’s children up to be a torment to others. Th

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Author

Jane Collier

Publisher

Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551110967

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Philosophy, Literary

Updated

2026-03-24