
Jane Barker
Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four, Volume 1
Robert C. Evans(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 17. June 2009
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-7546-3145-3 (ISBN)
Description
Jane Barker (1652-1732) is increasingly being recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. The author of both poems and novels (including novels containing numerous poems), Barker was largely ignored for many years but has recently been the subject of intense interest and investigation. Despite this, no complete, collected edition of Barker's poems has yet appeared, and the present volume is the first reproduction of her important early published volume, Poetical Recreations, to be issued in facsimile as a printed book (rather than on microfilm). Jane Barker's life was rich in incident. Her early poetry was enthusiastically advocated by the male students at St. John's College, Cambridge. A persecuted Catholic and a subsequent longtime exiled supporter of the Jacobite cause in France following the 'Bloodless Revolution', she was also physically disabled and without great financial means, in part because she never married. Almost certainly her decision to begin publishing novels was motivated, on some level, by financial need. By the time she died, in March 1732, at the age of seventy-nine, she had lived a life that had been long, eventful, and accomplished, but by no means easy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
748 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7546-3145-3 (9780754631453)
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Person
Robert C. Evans is Distinguished Teaching and Research Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at Auburn University, Montgomery, USA
Content
Contents:Preface by the General Editors; Introductory Note; Jane Barker, Poetical Recreations: Consisting of Original Poems, Songs, Odes &c. With several New Translations (1688).