Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

More than a hundred women poets of the eighteenth century are represented in this anthology. Written by duchesses, ladies, and working women, the poems speak with vigour and immediacy of the world they lived in and their experiences of town and country, love and marriage, public and private topics. In a range of moods from melancholic and resentful to the humorous and exuberant, the poets open a new perspective on their age, and provide grounds for a reassessment of a neglected aspect of its literature.