Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
Milkmaids on Parnassus
Print publication year:
2003
Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany
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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 and Molly Leapor, the German cowherd Anna Louisa Karsch, the Scottish diarywoman Janet Little, the Scottish domestic servant Christian Milne, and the English milkmaid Ann Cromartie Yearsley. Their literature