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The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker.
Title:
The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker.
Author:
Barker, Jane.
ISBN:
9780195358766
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (379 pages)
Series:
Women Writers in English 1350-1850
Contents:
Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Selected Bibliography -- Notes on the Text -- THE GALESIA TRILOGY: Love Intrigues -- A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies -- The Lining of the Patch Work Screen -- SELECTED POEMS FROM PART TWO OF THE MAGDALEN MANUSCRIPT -- TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS -- TO HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN -- TO MADAM FITZ JAMES -- TO DAME -AUGUSTIN NUN -- TO MY DEAR COSEN COLL- -- THE MISERIES OF ST. GERMAINS -- TO MY FRIENDS WHO PRAIS'D MY POEMS -- ON THE DEATH OF THE RlGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF EXITER -- AT THE SIGHT OF THE BODY OF OUR LATE GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN LORD -- A DIALOGUE BETWEEN FlDELIA AND HER LITTLE NEPHEW, MARTIUS -- ON THE GREAT CARES, AND SMALL INJOYMENTS OF PARENTS -- REFLECTION ON DREAMS -- THE LOVERS ELESIUM -- THE VIRGINS PARADISE -- REFLECTIONS ON MR. COWLEYS WORDS -- A SONG -- INDEX OF FIRST LINES OF POEMS.
Abstract:
Novelist, religious convert, political poet and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. "A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies" (1723) and "The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen" (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance. Hybrid in genre, they include realistic stories, and romances interspersed with poems, hymns, odes, recipes and religious and philosophical reflections that survey and critique the turbulent social, economic and political scene of early-18th-century England.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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