Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry

by Richard Greene

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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 early death at the age of twenty-four. This is a timely examination of the work of a poet who has remained almost forgotten for 200 years. Leapor is one of many gifted poets, mainly women and laborers, whose work stands outside the traditional canon of eighteenth-century verse. Richard Greene draws on extensive...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198119887

ISBN13:9780198119883

Release Date:June 1993

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:256 Pages

Weight:1.04 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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