The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

by Jane Valentine Barker

Novelist, poet, manager of farm property, convert to Roman Catholicism, Jacobite in exile in France, and woman unmarried by choice, Jane Barker (1652-1732) wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed an equally remarkable variety of genres. Her multifaceted work is important in understanding the woman artist, the shifting literary marketplace, and the response of women to a society torn apart by endless wars, religious intolerance, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086511
• ISBN13: 9780195086515
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.5"