The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker

Name: The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker
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By Barker, Jane Valentine

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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.

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Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 380
Release Date:: 1997-03-27
Publication Date:: 1997-06-01
Publisher:: Oxford University Press
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 0195086503
ISBN13:: 9780195086508
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 666 g
Height:: 14.5 cm
Width:: 22.2 cm
Thickness:: 2.6 cm

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