Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany: Milkmaids on Parnassus

by Susanne Kord

First comparative study of an unlikely group of authors: 18th-century women peasants.

This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group of authors: eighteenth-century women peasants in England, Scotland, and Germany, women who, as a rule, received little or no formal education and lived by manual labor, many of them in dire poverty. Among them are the English washerwoman Mary Collier, the English domestic servants Elizabeth Hands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571132686
• ISBN13: 9781571132680
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 6.2"