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(1743) Two years after “Anti-Pamela”, Eliza Haywood published this conduct manual for servant girls. Here she sounds more like Richardson, a fussy moralizing bore, than herself, noted author of lusty amatory fiction. In a section dealing with amorous employers, Haywood‘s advice could have been modeled after Pamela, never mind that she had satirized it only recently. Interesting for its glimpse into the period and another side of Haywood's career

Beware the notorious tea-to-dipsomania pipeline!

“I have known several who have loath'd the very Smell of any spiritous Liquor, become at last to love them to their Ruin, meerly by drinking of Tea, which, by too much cooling and weakening of the Stomach, seems to render it necessary to have something warm.“