The Works of Mary Leapor
Author: Mary Leapor, Richard Greene and the late Ann Messenger Series: Oxford English Texts
Offers ample proof that this kitchen-maid daughter of a gardener may just have been the most important woman poet of the eighteenth century
Mary Leapor (1722-46) was the kitchen-maid daughter of a Northamptonshire gardener. Her poems are at times amusing, angry, and poignant. This volume presents all of her works, generously introduced and annotated, so that general readers may embrace this remarkable poet, whom many critics now believe to be one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century literature.
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Offers ample proof that this kitchen-maid daughter of a gardener may just have been the most important woman poet of the eighteenth century
Mary Leapor (1722-46) was the kitchen-maid daughter of a Northamptonshire gardener. Her poems are at times amusing, angry, and poignant. This volume presents all of her works, generously introduced and annotated, so that general readers may embrace this remarkable poet, whom many critics now believe to be one of the outstanding figures of 18th-century literature.
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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 in 250 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 andproviding 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 ineighteenth-century studies.
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“"The fact of Leapor's importance as a poet is increasingly hard to question.... This edition, like Janet Todd's of Behn, should help propel Leapor into deserved canonicity."--Studies in English Literature 1500-1900”
The fact of Leapor's importance as a poet is increasingly hard to question.... This edition, like Janet Todd's of Behn, should help propel Leapor into deserved canonicity. Studies in English Literature 1500-1900
About the Author
Richard Greene was born in 1961 in St. John's, Newfoundland. He took a BA in English from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1983. He matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford, in 1984, and was granted his doctorate in English in 1991. From 1990-1995, he taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Since 1995, he has taught at the University of Toronto, where he is an associate professor. Ann Parshall Messenger, born in 1933, grew up in the United States and waseducated at Oberlin College, Cornell University and Somerville College, Oxford. After a brief period teaching at the University of British Columbia, she joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University inBurnaby, British Columbia, where she was made Professor of English. She died in 1996.
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 in 250 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.
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