Poetry by English Women: Social the struggle for land

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author of A Week in the Life of Corinth

• Over 700 castles and fortications

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is immediately recognized as the woman who has been targeted

Poetry by English Women: Social the struggle for landThis comprehensive introductory anthology of poems by forty women writers from Elizabethan to Victorian times includes work by aristocrats and frame workers, by celebrated figures such as Aphra Behn, the Bronts, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti, and by fascinating but hitherto inaccessible poets such as the unaccountably neglected Margaret Cavendish and Mary Leapor. Love songs, feminist polemic, witty satire and religious rhapsody,