There's a lot to be said about Thomas: she had one foot in the world of genteel woman's MS writing, and, because she was a "lady"/gentlewoman with essentially no money, another foot in the Curll world of London bookselling. Added to these are the facts that she endured a sixteen-year engagement in which both she and fiance turned down other authors (the correspondence from which was posthumously published as the 1732 volume Pylades and Corinna) and that she sold genuine Pope letters to Curll for 10 guineas, and you have someone who essentially sold at below-market price the social-symbolic capital of being a gentlewoman poet.