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List Of 18th-century British Working-class Writers
This list focuses on published authors whose working-class status or background was part of their literary reputation. These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or patrons. This lack of standardized education gave rise to the notion of the "rough," "untutored," "natural" artist. There was a vogue among middle- and upper-class readers, particularly later in the eighteenth-century and throughout the Romantic era, for writers with an "interesting story of genius-in-rags," for "the Unschooled Sons" — and daughters — "of Genius."Williams, John. "Displacing Romanticism: Anna Seward, Joseph Weston and the Unschooled Sons of Genius." ''Placing and Displacing Romanticism''. Ed. Peter J. Kitson. London: Ashgate, 2001, 48-59. Writers Notes Resources *Andrews, Corey E. "'Work' Poems: Assessing the Georgic Mode of Eighteenth-Century Working-Class Poetry." ''Experiments in Genre in Eighteenth-Century Literature' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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A title is one or more words used before or after a person's name, in certain contexts. It may signify either generation, an official position, or a professional or academic qualification. In some languages, titles may be inserted between the first and last name (for example, ''Graf'' in German, Cardinal in Catholic usage (Richard Cardinal Cushing) or clerical titles such as Archbishop). Some titles are hereditary. Types Titles include: * Honorific titles or styles of address, a phrase used to convey respect to the recipient of a communication, or to recognize an attribute such as: ** Imperial, royal and noble ranks ** Academic degree ** Social titles, prevalent among certain sections of society due to historic or other reasons. ** Other accomplishment, as with a title of honor * Title of authority, an identifier that specifies the office or position held by an official Titles in English-speaking areas Common titles * Mr. – Adult man (regardless of marital status) * Ms. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Chicken
Edward Chicken (1698–1746) was a Tyneside born teacher, poet and Parish Clerk. One of his poems was "The Collier’s Wedding". He was one of the earliest of the Geordie poets and songsters. Life Edward Chicken was born in 1698 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Not much is known of his life except a few snippets, mainly from details from a Mr W Cail’s publication of 1829. He was the Parish clerk at St. John's Church, and lived at (or near) The White Cross, Newgate Street. Newcastle upon Tyne. By profession he was a teacher. On 6 February 1719, Chicken married Ann Jordan of Newcastle (d. 1768). Together they had four children: Edward (b. 1721), Catherine (1723-1759), George (b. 1726) who died in infancy, and Eleanor (1728-1810). Edward Chicken died on 2 January 1746 in Newcastle, and was buried at St. John's Churchyard where a tombstone was erected in his name. Works He was the author of "The Collier's Wedding" written in 1729 and gives a somewhat idyllic view of life in B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Leapor
Mary Leapor (1722–1746) was an English poet, born in Marston St. Lawrence, Northamptonshire, the only child of Anne Sharman (died 1741) and Philip Leapor (1693–1771), a gardener. She, out of the many labouring-class writers of the period, was noticeably well received. Biography Partly self-educated, she probably received a rudimentary education at either a local dame school, or at the local free school in Brackley on the south side of the Chapel. According to her father she began writing "tolerably" at the age of 10. Her father recollected, "She would often be scribbling, and sometimes in Rhyme," but that her mother ended up discouraging the writing, requesting she find some "more profitable employment". She was fortunate enough to attain a position as kitchen maid with Susanna Jennens ("Parthenissa" in Leapor's poetry), who apparently encouraged her writing and allowed her the use of her library. Jennens wrote poetry herself and had connections to both Mary Astell and Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Jones (poet)
Henry Jones (1721–1770), born in Ireland, was a poet and dramatist active in London. Life Jones was born at Beaulieu, near Drogheda, County Louth, in 1721. He was apprenticed to a bricklayer, but contrived to study privately. Some complimentary verses which he addressed to the corporation of Drogheda and some lines "On Mr. Pope's Death", attracted the attention of Lord-chief-justice Singleton, who lived at Beaulieu. In 1745 he obtained employment in the reparation of the parliament house at Dublin, Jones celebrated the arrival of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Lord Chesterfield as lord-lieutenant of Ireland in a poem which was presented to Chesterfield by Singleton. Chesterfield rewarded Jones liberally, and, at his request, Jones followed him to London in 1748. With the assistance of Chesterfield and his friends, Jones published by subscription ''Poems on Several Occasions,'' 8vo, London, 1749, from which he derived a handsome profit. He finished about the end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susannah Harrison
Susannah Harrison (1752–1784) was an English working-class religious poet. Her 1780 collection ''Songs in the Night'' went through at least twenty-one editions in Britain and America, making it "one of the best selling collections written by a laboring-class poet in the late eighteenth century".Bridget Keenan, 'Mysticims and Mystifications: The Demands of Laboring-Class Religious Poetry', ''Criticism'', Vol. 47, No. 4 (Fall 2005), pp.471-91 Harrison was a domestic servant who taught herself to read and write. Aged twenty, she suffered an illness from which she did not expect to survive and gave manuscripts of her poetry to John Condor, a Congregationalist Minister, who edited and published her poems for her. She died 3 August 1784 in Ipswich. Works * ''Songs in the Night'', 1780 See also *List of 18th-century British working-class writers References External links Susannah Harrisonat hymnary.org Hymnary.org is an online database of hymns, hymnodists and hymnals hosted by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Hands
Elizabeth Hands (pen name, Daphne; 1746–1815) was an English poet. Early life Elizabeth Herbert was born in Harbury, 1746. Before the birth of her daughter she worked as a domestic servant for at least one family in Warwickshire, in the area between Rugby and Coventry. Career By 1785, when her daughter was born, she was married to a blacksmith, Mr. Hands. They lived near Rugby. Poems written by Hands using the pseudonym "Daphne" were published in ''Jopson's Coventry Mercury''.Feldman, Paula R. (1997). ''British women poets of the Romantic era: an anthology''. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 256. Among those impressed by her work was Thomas James, the headmaster of Rugby School. In 1789 the school's press published by subscription a book of her poems, ''The Death of Amnon. A Poem, with an Appendix: containing Pastorals, and other Poetical Pieces''. It is not known whether Hands continued writing after the publication of ''Amnon''. The classics master at Rugby ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantia Grierson
Constantia Grierson (née Crawley; c. 1705 – 2 December 1732), was an editor, poet, and classical scholar from County Kilkenny, Ireland. She is notable for her achievements as a classicist, which were all the more remarkable given her labouring-class background. Life Constantia Crawley was born to an impoverished rural family in County Kilkenny. Her parents recognized her intelligence at an early age and encouraged her desire to learn. She was tutored in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, and French by her local vicar, but was mostly self-educated. According to one editor she was "a most excellent scholar, not only in Greek and Roman literature, but in history, divinity, philosophy, and mathematics: and what makes her character the more remarkable is, that she died so early as the age of 27, and that she acquired this great learning merely by the force of her own genius, and continual application.". Laetitia Pilkington felt "her Learning appeared like the Gift poured out of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Glover
Jean Glover or Jennifer Glover (1758–1801) was a Scottish poet and singer. She was the daughter of James Glover, handloom weaver and Jean Thomson, born in Townhead, Kilmarnock; was well educated for the time she lived in, clever and sharp-witted.Burns Encyclopedia Retrieved : 2012-11-25 She had a fine singing voice and exceedingly good looks of ''"both face and figure"''. admired her voice and additionally he copied down her song ''"O'er the moor amang the heather"'' and sent it for printing in the in 1792. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gifford
William Gifford (April 1756 – 31 December 1826) was an English critic, editor and poet, famous as a satirist and controversialist. Life Gifford was born in Ashburton, Devon, to Edward Gifford and Elizabeth Cain. His father, a glazier and house painter, had run away as a youth with vagabond Bampfylde Moore Carew, and he remained a carouser throughout his life. He died when William was thirteen; his mother died less than a year later. He was left in the care of a godfather who treated him with little consistency. Gifford was sent in turn to work as a plough boy, a ship's boy, student, and cobbler's apprentice. Of these, Gifford cared only for the life of a student, and he continued to write verses as he learned the cobbler's trade. Gifford's fortunes changed when his first poetical efforts came to the attention of an Ashburton surgeon, William Cookesley. Cookesley raised a subscription to have the boy's apprenticeship bought out and he returned to school. By 1779 he had en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Freeth
John Freeth (1731 – 29 September 1808), also known as Poet Freeth and who published his work under the pseudonym John Free, was an English innkeeper, poet and songwriter. As the owner of Freeth's Coffee House between 1768 and his death in 1808, he was major figure in the political and cultural life of Birmingham during the Midlands Enlightenment. References Bibliography * * See also *List of 18th-century British working-class writers This list focuses on published authors whose working-class status or background was part of their literary reputation. These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or patrons ... People from Birmingham, West Midlands 1731 births 1808 deaths English male writers {{England-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Falconer (poet)
William Falconer (21 February 1732 – c. January 1770) was a Scottish epic poet concerned mainly with life at sea. He also compiled a dictionary of marine terms. ''Life'' Falconer was the son of a barber in Edinburgh, where he was born. He became a sailor, and thereby competent to describe the management of a storm-tossed vessel, whose career and fate are told in his poem, ''The Shipwreck'' (1762), a work of genuine, if unequal talent. The efforts Falconer made to improve the poem in a later edition were not wholly successful. The work won him the patronage of the Duke of York, through whose influence he was appointed purser on various warships. He had himself been one of three survivors of a trading ship on a voyage from Alexandria to Venice. In 1751 Falconer produced a poem on the death of Frederick, Prince of Wales. He had also contributed poems to the ''Gentleman's Magazine''. ''The Shipwreck'' was dedicated to the then rear-admiral the Duke of York. Falconer was briefly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Duck
Stephen Duck (c. 1705 – 21 March 1756) was an English poet whose career reflected both the Augustan era's interest in "naturals" ( natural geniuses) and its resistance to classlessness. Biography Duck was born at Charlton, near Pewsey, in Wiltshire. Little is known about his family, whether from Duck himself or from contemporary records, except that they were labourers and very poor. Duck attended a charity school and left at the age of thirteen to begin working in the fields. Around 1724, he married as his first wife Ann, and began to attempt to better himself in order to escape the toil and poverty of agricultural work. Encouraged by the village squire, schoolmaster and rector he read Milton, Dryden, Prior, and ''The Spectator'', as well as the Holy Bible, according to Joseph Spence. Rise in popularity He was "discovered" by Alured Clarke, a prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, and Clarke introduced him to high society. Clarke and Spence (the Professor of Poetry at Oxfor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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