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POEMS BY A LADY
by Helen Craik
Ed. by Rachel Mann & Patrick Scott

The #poetry of Helen Craik (1751–1825), #Gothic novelist & friend of #RobertBurns, was long thought lost. The rediscovery of her 1790 #manuscript “Poems by a Lady”, transcribed here for the first time, invites a fresh evaluation of her life & work, & adds to the critical reassessment of poetry by #Scottish women in the #Romantic era

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#literature #18thcentury #Romanticism #WomenWriters

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/poems-by-a-lady/

Book cover

Poems by a Lady
by Helen Craik
Edited from the Beinecke Manuscript by Rachel Mann and Patrick Scott

Cover image: Cover image: William Nicholson (1781–1844), Portrait of a Lady in Rustic Costume with a Sheaf of Wheat. An oil painting of a seated young woman, looking off to the left. She has pale skin, pink cheeks and lips, and dark hair, with loose curls falling past her ears. She is dressed in a somewhat fanciful costume, with a red bodice and white sleeves. A pink – possibly silk – scarf is tied loosely around her neck. Her right arm rests on a sheaf of wheat and her left arm is hooked through the ribbon of a large straw bonnet. There are trees behind her and a sky patched with some dark clouds.

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