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Ann Yearsley

Ann Yearsley. 1753-1806. Why Ann Yearsley?. Picked at random Date seemed to fit with schedule Glad to have picked because of her importance to patronage and working class poetry. Yearsley In Demaria: On Mrs. Montagu. Published in Poems on Various Occasions (1785)

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Ann Yearsley

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  1. Ann Yearsley 1753-1806

  2. Why Ann Yearsley? • Picked at random • Date seemed to fit with schedule • Glad to have picked because of her importance to patronage and working class poetry

  3. Yearsley In Demaria: On Mrs. Montagu • Published in Poems on Various Occasions (1785) • Addressed to Elizabeth Montagu, friend of Hannah More. • Very angry • Obvious jab at Hannah More • Example: lines 12-19 • Disguised in the poem

  4. Life After Hannah More/Death(con’t) • “There are currently no modern editions of her play, Earl Goodwin, performed in 1789, and published in 1791, or her novel The Royal Captives(1795)[...] “ (Andrews 91).

  5. A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade • “For Ann Yearsley, the very act of contributing to the abolitionist argument demonstrated her right to be part of a wider literary culture and, as such continued her textual rivalry with More” (Andrews 100).

  6. Yearsley In Demaria: To Indifference • Published in Poems On Various Subjects (1787) • Touches on sensibility • Least favorite poem in the textbook • Rambling • Do like last lines of poem (43-47) • Symbolizes her departure from More

  7. Yearsley In Demaria: To those who accuse the Author of Ingratitude • Published in Poems on Various Subjects (1787) • Comments on public’s criticism of her poetry after patronage with Hannah More • Example: lines 33-40 • Expresses her wishes of public writing and how they were crushed by a dismayed public

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