The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker (Hardcover)

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 Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (1726), both part of The Galesia Trilogy, attest to her talents; they include realistic stories and romances interspersed with poems, hymns, recipes, and religious and philosophical reflections on the turbulent social, economic, and political scene of early eighteenth-century England. Both works, when first published, achieved immense popularity. This volume reprints the entire Galesia Trilogy as well as a selection of poems from the Magdalen manuscript.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Release date:	July 1997
First published:	March 1997
Authors:	Jane Barker
Editors:	Carol Shiner Wilson (Associate Professor, Department of English)
Dimensions:	216 x 146 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	378
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-508650-8
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-508650-3
Barcode:	9780195086508

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