Yearsly Ann
Title
Yearsly Ann
Creator
Maiden name "Cromartie," aka "Lactilla," "Poetical Milkwoman of Bristol"
Relation
[Full Text On-line : http://www.brycchancarey.com/slavery/yearsley1.htm ] A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788.
Identifier
LC 3
Coverage
Born Clifton, Gloucestshire; lived Bristol; died (in obscuro) Melksham, Wilts
Birth Date
1752
First Name
Ann
Last Name
Yearsly
Bibliography
Radcliffe; Burke in Woodman 1998, 215-30, Burke in Hughes, Mason & Smith 2002, 12-28, Tim Burke (ed), Ann Yearsley: Selected Poems (Cyder Press, 2003); Cafarelli, 79-81, Christmas 2001, 18-19, 23, 235-66, Cole & Swartz in Favret & Watson 1994, pp.143-69, Demers in Huntington Library Quarterly 56 (1993), 135-50, Doody 1985, Dorn in Battigelli & Cope 2000, pp.163-89, Falter 2002, Felsenstein in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 21 (2002), Ferguson in The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 27 (1986), 247-68, Ferguson in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12 (1993), pp.13-46, Ferguson 1995, 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); Griffin 2002, Heinzelman in Favret & Watson 1994, 101-24, Kahn in The Bucknell Review 42 (1988), pp.59-74, Klaus 1985, 6-10, 15-17, 20-1, Landry 1990, Lonsdale (1989), 392-401, Mahl & Koon 1977, McGann 1996, Milne (1999), 139-73, Newey in Burroughs 2000, pp.79-101, Pearson 1999, Pearson in Scragg and Weinberg 2000, 122-37, Richardson, 252-4, Richardson in Kitson and Fulford 1998, pp.129-47, Rizzo in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 20 (1991), 241-66, Roberts, 1834, Rowton, 184-6, Sales in Pirie 1994, Scheuermann, 2002, Shiach, 45, 56-9, Silvester, 1934, Southey (1831), 125-34, 195-8, Tinker, 99-104, 6-10, 15-17, 20-1, Tompkins 1938, Unwin 1954, 68, 77-81, Waldron 1990, Waldron 1996, Zionkowski in Eighteenth-Century Life 13 (1989), 91-108; Keegan (2008), 77-80; Backscheider, 412; Backscheider & Ingrassia, 891-2; Bakser, 373-7
Biographical Text
Detailed note in Elsie
Occupation
Farmer's wife; mother of six
Death Date
1806
Publications
Poems on Several Occasions, (London: Thomas Cadell, 1785), Poems on Various Subjects (1787), facsimile edition (Oxford and New York: Woodstock Books, 1994), A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1788 [Full Text On-line]), The Rural Lyre: A Volume of Poems, 1796, reprinted in The Romantics: Women Poets, 12 vols, (London: Routledge, 1996). Yearsley also wrote a novel, The Royal Captives: A Fragment of Secret History (4 vols 1795), and a play, Earl Goodwin (pub. 1791).
Subscribers
Yes
OED DNB
Yes
- Date Added
- September 21, 2012
- Collection
- Labour Class Poets
- Item Type
- Person
- Tags
- Female
- Citation
- Maiden name "Cromartie," aka "Lactilla," "Poetical Milkwoman of Bristol", “Yearsly Ann,” Amanda's Test Omeka site, accessed March 29, 2024, https://amandafrench.omeka.net/items/show/364.