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Mary Leapor

Mary Leapor
Author: Richard Greene
Publisher:
Total Pages: 243
Release: 1993
Genre: Poets, English
ISBN: 9780191671234

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Mary Leapor (1722-1746), a Northamptonshire kitchen maid produced a substantial body of exceptional poetry which was only published after her death at the age of 24. This book examines Leapor's poetry.


The Works of Mary Leapor

The Works of Mary Leapor
Author: Mrs. Leapor (Mary)
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780198182924

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Mary Leapor (1722-1746) was the kitchen-maid daughter of a Northamptonshire gardener. In the past 15 years, her works have been recovered from deep obscurity and she has been widely recognized as possibly the most important woman poet of the eighteenth century. This new edition, the first in250 years, provides an accurate text of all her known works, including prose and drama. The volume has a substantial introduction summarizing all that is known of her life and providing an over-view of current scholarship. It also provides textual notes and detailed commentary on individual works.This long-anticipated edition is expected to become a landmark in eighteenth-century studies.


The Muses of Resistance

The Muses of Resistance
Author: Donna Landry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521374125

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In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected careers of laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. Poets such as the washerwoman Mary Collier, the milkwoman Ann Yearsley, the domestic servants Mary Leapor and Elizabeth Hands, the dairywoman Janet Little, and the slave Phyllis Wheatley can be seen adapting the conventions of polite verse for the purposes of social criticism. Some of their strategies relate to earlier texts, revealing ideological blind spots in the tropes of male poets. Elsewhere, they made interesting innovations in poetic form. Mary Leapor's 'Crumble Hall', for instance, by attending to sexual politics, extends the critique of aristocratic privilege in the country-house poem beyond that of Pope and Crabbe. In Ann Yearsley's verse, landscape description, historical narrative, and philosophical meditation are infused with political comment. Historically important, technically impressive and often aesthetically innovative, the poetic achievements of these plebeian women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery.


Women Alone

Women Alone
Author: Bridget Hill
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300088205

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This book opens a window into the lives of British spinsters in the mid-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, assessing the opportunities open to them and the restrictions placed upon them within different social classes, occupations, and periods. Hill examines how often spinsters were able to earn enough money to live independently, She looks at the part single women played in religious organisations and the role of friendship and letter-writing in their daily lives. She describes the nature of close relationships between women, some lesbian but many others not. Exploring the spinsters' possibilities of escape from restrictive lives, particularly by emigration or crossdressing, she discusses how successful these were. She provides details about the degree of surveillance single women suffered from the authorities and how often they were seen as a threat to social order. Finally she addresses the question of whether all spinsters of this era were suffering victims or potential viragoes, or neither.


"Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow"

Author: Anne Milne
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2008
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780838756928

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Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow benefits from the foundations set by earlier studies of laboring-class writers even as it extends their conclusions through the use of an explicitly ecocritical perspective."--BOOK JACKET.


Labouring Muses

Labouring Muses
Author: William J. Christmas
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2001
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874137477

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'The Lab'ring Muses' is the first study to bring together a wide range of verse published by laboring-class authors between 1730 and 1830. The book examines a total of sixteen case studies that establish a specifically English tradition of laboring-class poetics.


Bringing Travel Home to England

Bringing Travel Home to England
Author: Susan Lamb
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2009
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780874139211

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This study is the first to identify and examine the circulations and mutually constitutive relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the 18th century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways.


Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry
Author: Patricia Meyer Spacks
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2009-02-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1405153628

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Reading Eighteenth-Century Poetry recaptures for modern readers the urgency, distinctiveness and rewarding nature of this challenging and powerful body of poetry. An essential guide to reading eighteenth-century poetry, written by world-renowned critic, Patricia Meyer Spacks Exposes the multiplicity of forms, tones, and topics engaged by poets during this period Provides in-depth analysis of poems by established figures such as Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, as well as work by less familiar figures, including Anne Finch and Mary Leapor A broadly chronological structure incorporates close reading alongside insightful contextual and historical detail Captures the power and uniqueness of eighteenth-century poetry, creating an ideal guide for those returning to this period, or delving into it for the first time


The Female Poets of Great Britain

The Female Poets of Great Britain
Author: Frederic Rowton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 604
Release: 1854
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

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