The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the Temple of Virtue (London 1785) is available here.
The author, Lucy Peacock, lists hundreds of subscribers who helped to fund her volume, including many of the Anglo-Irish landed gentry. She also modestly admits that she got the idea for her book by reading Spencer’s Fairy Queen, ‘where he has so beautifully described the Passions’, inspiring her to ‘personify them in a more familiar language.’
Tarry at home - and travel in books! 