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

by Richard Greene

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"