Poynton or Pointon Priscilla
Title
Poynton or Pointon Priscilla
Creator
Married name Pickering
Identifier
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Coverage
Chester
Birth Date
c. 1740
First Name
Priscilla
Last Name
Poynton or Pointon
Bibliography
Poole & Markland, 387-9; Jackson (1993), 259; Lonsdale (1989), 272-6; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 883
Biographical Text
strict parents, largely self-taught, blinded at age 12, married a saddler; published to support herself after her husband's premature death in 1793
Death Date
1801
Publications
Poems on Several Occasions (Birmingham, 1770), with nearly 1,300 subscribers; 2nd edn, Poems by Mrs Pickering...to which are added poetical sketches (Birmingham and London, 1794), ed. by Joseph Weston, pub to support herself after her husband’s premature death that year
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Female
- Citation
- Married name Pickering, “Poynton or Pointon Priscilla,” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed April 28, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/300.