A gross miscarriage of justice Was the barbaric execution of this 15yr old pauper apprentice girl in 1782, in rural South Devon, a true story based on well researched sources, thus? Tracing through all the historic evidence I can find, together with some conjecture, I have endeavoured to put together the events leading up to this awful punishment carried out during the period known as 'enlightened' in England in the 18th century. Was Rebecca, born at the very bottom of the rung, in the wrong place at the wrong time? This is her story, as I see it.
A gross miscarriage of justice Was the barbaric execution of this 15yr old pauper apprentice girl in 1782, in rural South Devon, a true story based o...
Producing Women's Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Gillian Wright explores not only the forms and topics favored by women, but also how their verse was enabled and shaped by their textual and biographical circumstances. She combines traditional literary and bibliographical approaches to address women's complex use of manuscript and print and their relationships with the male-generated genres of the traditional literary canon, as well as the role of agents such as scribes, publishers and...
Producing Women's Poetry is the first specialist study to consider English-language poetry by women across the seventeenth and early eighteenth centur...
