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
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.