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  1. Lactilla, milkwoman of Clifton
    the life and writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753 - 1806
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Pr., Athens u.a.

    Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of... more

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    Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of a circulating library. This literary biography offers the most thoroughly researched and reasoned account to date of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley's gradual exclusion from the annals of literature In the particulars of Yearsley's story, Mary Waldron offers a fascinating example of how literary reputations can flourish or dwindle under the prevalent beliefs and preoccupations of a readership

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0820318019
    RVK Categories: HL 4990
    Subjects: Geschichte; Authors, English; Milk trade; Women and literature
    Other subjects: Yearsley, Ann <1752-1806>; Yearsley, Ann <1753-1806>; Yearsley, Ann (1753-1806)
    Scope: XIII, 339 S., Ill.
  2. Lactilla, milkwoman of Clifton
    the life and writings of Ann Yearsley, 1753 - 1806
    Published: 1996
    Publisher:  Univ. of Georgia Press, Athens, Ga. [u.a.]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0820318019
    RVK Categories: HL 4990
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array
    Scope: XIII, 339 S., Ill.
    Notes:

    Literaturverz. S. 315 - 325