The Collected Works of Ann Yearsley

'brings together for the first time all of Yearsley's surviving writings, showing the breadth and depth of her literary achievement ... a major milestone ... sheds important new light on Romantic-era women writers, the nature of patronage at the end of the eighteenth century, and Bristol's literary and political culture.' Notes and Queries 'These volumes are necessary: not merely to complete and correct the late twentieth-century rehabilitation of this understandably pugnacious writer who valued her own "savage, stubborn will", but more importantly, to demonstrate all the things it is that her poems know.' Times Literary Supplement