Ann Yearsley and Hannah More, Patronage and Poetry

'Andrews' study is a welcome revision. Not only does it probe the fraught dynamics of partnership and friendship, it also explores the activities of patronage and religious non-conformity in light of changing literary tastes, both then and now.' SHARP News 'a major milestone in the scholarly recovery of Yearsley's work ... provides a significant stimulus to the critical re-evaluation of Yearsley's writings, and of the relationship between Yearsley and More.' Notes and Queries 'should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in late-eighteenth century women writers ... a carefully researched and beautifully written account of two important but under-appreciated writers and their literary milieu. It will shape accounts of Yearsley and More for years to come.' The BARS Review 'This is an important book, not only for the more detailed narrative it offers of this most turbulent of patronage relationships, but for the new understanding it brings of Yearsley's place in the Cottle circle in Bristol, and of the complexities of literary patronage during the period.' David Fairer, University of Leeds