The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

by Jane Barker

Book Overview

Novelist, religious dissident, political poet, and sometime Jacobite spy, Jane Barker wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed a facility with an equally remarkable variety of genres. Most extraordinary, though, was her ability to manipulate the objects of female domesticity, an embroidered patch-work screen for example, as literary conceits to rival those of her male contemporaries. "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" (1723) and "The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195086503
• ISBN13: 9780195086508
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"