Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Sensibility and slavery: the discourse of working women's verse; 2. The resignation of Mary Collier: some problems in feminist literary history; 3. An English Sappho brilliant, young and dead? Mary Leapor laughs at the fathers; 4. The complex contradictions of Ann Yearsley: working-class writer, bourgeois subject?; 5. Laboring in pastures new: the two Elizabeths; 6. Other others: the marginality of cultural difference; 7. The 1790s and after: 'Revolutions that as yet have no model'.

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A 1990 study of the remarkable by neglected laboring-class women poets of the eighteenth century.

Reviews

"For anyone interested in women's poetry, in class politics and art, or in eighteenth-century literature, this book is a real find." The Women's Review of Books