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- catalog abstract "Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of a circulating library. This literary biography offers the most thoroughly researched and reasoned account to date of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley's gradual exclusion from the annals of literature. In the particulars of Yearsley's story, Mary Waldron offers a fascinating example of how literary reputations can flourish or dwindle under the prevalent beliefs and preoccupations of a readership.".
- catalog contributor b9732921.
- catalog coverage "Clifton (Bristol, England) Biography.".
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of a circulating library. This literary biography offers the most thoroughly researched and reasoned account to date of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley's gradual exclusion from the annals of literature.".
- catalog description "Ch. 1. Life up to 1784 -- Ch. 2. The World of Letters and the Search for the Primitive -- Ch. 3. The Subscription, the Quarrel, and Its Aftermath -- Ch. 4. Poems, on Several Occasions, with Some Additional Pieces -- Ch. 5. Life and Writings to 1788 -- Ch. 6. Occasional Poems and Earl Goodwin: 1789-1791 -- Ch. 7. Public Poems and The Royal Captives: 1792-1795 -- Ch. 8. The Royal Lyre -- Ch. 9. Afterword -- The Real Ann Yearsley?".
- catalog description "In the particulars of Yearsley's story, Mary Waldron offers a fascinating example of how literary reputations can flourish or dwindle under the prevalent beliefs and preoccupations of a readership.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-325) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 339 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0820318019 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : The University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog spatial "Clifton (Bristol, England) Biography.".
- catalog spatial "England Clifton (Gloucestershire)".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "828/.609 B 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 18th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Milk trade England Clifton (Gloucestershire) Biography.".
- catalog subject "PR3779.Y4 Z95 1996".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English 18th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Yearsley, Ann, 1753-1806.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ch. 1. Life up to 1784 -- Ch. 2. The World of Letters and the Search for the Primitive -- Ch. 3. The Subscription, the Quarrel, and Its Aftermath -- Ch. 4. Poems, on Several Occasions, with Some Additional Pieces -- Ch. 5. Life and Writings to 1788 -- Ch. 6. Occasional Poems and Earl Goodwin: 1789-1791 -- Ch. 7. Public Poems and The Royal Captives: 1792-1795 -- Ch. 8. The Royal Lyre -- Ch. 9. Afterword -- The Real Ann Yearsley?".
- catalog title "Lactilla, milkwoman of Clifton : the life and writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753-1806 / Mary Waldron.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".