The Royal Captives: A Fragment from Secret History. Copied from an old manuscript.

Yearsley, Ann.

Verlag: Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1795.

Beschreibung

Ann Yearsley, n eÊCromartie (bap. 1753 Ð d. 1806) was a poet, playwright, and friend of Hannah More, Elizabeth Montagu, and other prominent poets and thinkers of the day. When Yearsley and her family were living in poverty, More organized, by subscription among her literary and wealthy friends, the publication of a volume of YearsleyÕs poems. Poems, on Several Occasions was published in 1785 with a preface addressed to Elizabeth Montagu. The list of over a thousand subscribers included Fanny Burney,ÊHenry Dundas,ÊSoame Jenyns,ÊSir Joshua Reynolds,ÊAnna Seward,ÊLady (Eglantine) Wallace,ÊHelen Maria Williams, andÊHorace Walpole. Two more volumes of the book were published under MoreÕs supervision. After falling out with More in 1786, Yearsley involved herself with members of the aristocracy in Bristol and the Irish peerage, and began writing in opposition to the Bristol slave trade. She wrote Earl Goodwin: an Historical Play, which was produced in Bristol and Bath in 1789 and printed in 1791, and Stanzas of Woe (1790), poetry on topics of local interests in Bristol. She published more poetry in Bristol newspapers and ran a circulating library beginning in 1793. Two volumes in one, twelvemo. 276 pp. Separate title-pages for each volume. With half-title in volume one (not called for in volume two). Contemporary tree calf with red morocco spine label and gilt seal stamped on spine. Two patches of calf on front cover rubbed. Contemporary bookplate of an Alexander Warren to front pastedown. Remarkably clean and bright internally. A very good, very fresh copy. First Dublin edition, first published in London earlier in the same year. All editions of this book are uncommon. OCLC records nine copies of the present edition (only five in the United States). This is the authorÕs only novel. In Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert SoutheyÊ(1847), J. Cottle opines that Yearsley was a formidable thinker, referring to her alongsideÊColeridge,ÊSouthey, andÊHumphry DavyÊas one of the Òbusy, the aspiring, and the intellectual spirits' who inhabited Bristol during the 1790sÓ (Cottle, xiii; quoted in Oxford DNB). Raven and Forster, 1795:50; CBEL II, 698. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 17140

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Titel: The Royal Captives: A Fragment from Secret ...

Verlag: Dublin: Printed by J. Stockdale, 1795.

Einband: Hardcover

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