Routledge The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley (The Pickering Masters)

Presents the works of Ann Yearsley, a laboring-class poet' whose writing forms part of an under-represented area of romanticism. This work includes her play "Earl Goodwin" and novel "The Royal Captives". Review 'brings together for the first time all of Yearsley's surviving writings, showing the breadth and depth of her literary achievement ... a major milestone ... sheds important new light on Romantic-era women writers, the nature of patronage at the end of the eighteenth century, and Bristol's literary and political culture.' Notes and Queries 'These volumes are necessary: not merely to complete and correct the late twentieth-century rehabilitation of this understandably pugnacious writer who valued her own "savage, stubborn will", but more importantly, to demonstrate all the things it is that her poems know.' Times Literary Supplement About the Author Kerri Andrews is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where her research interests include British print culture in the late eighteenth century/ early Romantic period, women's writing and labouring-class poetry. She is the author of a number of essays on the life and works of Ann Yearsley, including 'New letters, new poems: Ann Yearsley in context' (2010) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013).