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The Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)

door Jane Barker

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Novelist, religious convert, political poet and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. ""A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies"" (1723) and ""The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen"" (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance.

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18e eeuw (6) A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (1723) and The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (1726) (1) an anti-romance celebrated for its psychological realism (1) and a legal and economic system that consistently disadvantaged them. Love Intrigues (1713) (1) and more personal poems about Galesia's choice of the artistic life and her practice of the healing arts. Barker brilliantly structures the narratives of the second and third novels as an embroidered patchwork screen (1) and the relation of women's textile arts to imaginative literature. (1) and the response of women to a society torn apart by endless wars (1) and woman unmarried by choice (1) attest to her talents. In all three works (1) Barker asserts (1) Brits (1) captures the confusion and ambivalence of the young Galesia as she is courted by her rakish cousin. The second and third works include a dynamic range of pieces: popular tales of seduced nuns and lust for the high life in London (1) Engels (2) Engelse literatuur (3) equals anything developed by her male contemporaries in conveying the truths of human experience. Following the Trilogy (1) Fictie (5) Galesia is Barker's semi- autobiographical narrator and heroine (1) Jane Barker (1652-1732) wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed an equally remarkable variety of genres. Her multifaceted work is important in understanding the woman artist (1) Literatuur (1) never before published (1) poëzie (4) Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (1) the shifting literary marketplace (1) the three novels that comprise The Galesia Trilogy (1) this edition includes several Barker poems (1) to which Galesia stitches her artistic productions. This literary conceit (1) which prove particularly powerful in capturing life in exile after James II was deposed from the English throne by William of Orange in 1688. This latest addition to the Women Writers in English series will have strong appeal for scholars working in the h (1) whose voice becomes like that of a friend to the reader. The first work (1) women's history (1) worked harmoniously by a community of women (1)

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Novelist, religious convert, political poet and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. ""A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies"" (1723) and ""The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen"" (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance.

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