Hands Elizabeth
Title
Hands Elizabeth
Creator
nee Herbert
Identifier
LC 3, 153-70
Coverage
Coventry
Birth Date
1746
First Name
Elizabeth
Last Name
Hands
Bibliography
Radcliffe; Lonsdale (1989), 422-9; Rizzo, 243; Milne (1999), 60-99; Johnson, item 406; Jackson (1993), 144; Christmas, 228-34; Johnson 46, no. 192; Backscheider, 406-7; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 876; Cynthia Dereli, ‘In Search of a Poet: the life and work of Elizabeth Hands’, Women’s Writing, 8, no. 1 (2001), 169-82
Occupation
Servant, married to a blacksmith
Death Date
1815
Publications
pub. (as ‘Daphne’) in The Coventry Mercury, and won 1,200 subscribers for her The Death of Amnon. A Poem. With Appendix containing pastorals and other poetical pieces (Coventry, 1789, BL 1466.h.18); Caroline Franklin, Introduction to The Death of Amnon. A Poem by Elizabeth Hands [and] The Rural Lyre, A Volume of Poems by Ann Yearsley (London: Routledge, 1996)
OED DNB
Yes
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Female
- Citation
- nee Herbert, “Hands Elizabeth,” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed May 16, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/248.