Ned Ward - Bibliography

Bibliography

  • The Poet’s Ramble After Riches (1691)
  • Female Policy Detected, or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open (1695)
  • A Trip to Jamaica (1698) - broadsheet based on personal experience.
  • A Trip to New-England (1699)
  • The London Spy (1698)
  • Sot’s Paradise (1698)
  • Ecclesia et factio (1698)
  • The World Bewitched (1699)
  • A Trip to Islington (1699)
  • A Trip to Sadler’s Wells (1699)
  • The Weekly Comedy, as it is Dayly Acted at most Coffee-Houses in London' (1699; reworked and republished as The Humours of a Coffee-House, 1707)
  • A Trip to Bath (1700)
  • A Trip to Stourbridge (1700)
  • A Journey to Hell (1700–1705)
  • The Dissenting Hypocrite (1704)
  • Honesty in Distress but Relieved by No Party (1705)
  • Hubibras Redivivus (twelve monthly parts, 1705–1707) - a bitter attack on the Whig government of the day that resulted in the author being put in the pillory twice: at the Royal Exchange and Charing Cross.
  • The Wooden World Dissected (1706) - an unreliable account of the Royal Navy.
  • The Diverting Muse (1707)
  • The London Terraefilius (1707)
  • Mars Stript of his Armour (1708)
  • The Secret History of Clubs (1709) - which contains one of the first descriptions of homosexual clubs in London.
  • Nuptial Dialogues and Debates (1710)
  • Vulgus Britannicus, or, The British Hudibras (1710)
  • Don Quixote (1711–1712)
  • History of the Grand Rebellion (1713–1715)
  • The Hudibrastick Brewer (1714)
  • The Delights of the Bottle (1720)
  • The Merry Travellers (1712)
  • The Parish Guttlers (1722)

Ward’s popularity waned after his death, though his The London Spy was serialised by several London and provincial newspapers in the 1730s.

The New London Spy was later used as title of a book by Hunter Davies.

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