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Mary Collier (b. 1679) Get access

in Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions
Published: 19 April 2012
...In 1739, Mary Collier composed her first known poem, The Woman’s Labour, while working as a washerwoman. The poem was a rejoinder to Stephen Duck’s 1730 poem The Thresher’s Labour, in which he dismissed the “little Work” of women laborers and claimed...
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Conclusion: A Woman’s Work is Never Done Get access

Katie Kadue
in Chicago Scholarship Online > Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton
Published: 19 September 2021
... for poetic meditation, as in Stephen Duck’s “The Thresher’s Labour,” to which Collier explicitly responds. Collier’s poem, with its packed schedule of ceaseless labors, describes conditions that would seem to make poetry impossible, and yet, she suggests, composing and reading poetry can be coterminous...
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Introduction: ‘All mankind would make a figure’ Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This book begins by exploring how the labouring-class poet Stephen Duck came...
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‘A Man…grown up into an Excellent Poet all at once’ Making the Poet Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores the early life of Stephen Duck, revealing how...
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‘’Tis agreeable to see what use he has made of his Reading’ Writing ‘The Thresher’s Labour’ Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores a question which has preoccupied readers of Stephen Duck’s...
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‘Some Gentleman-like Title, as that of The Revd’ Joining the Clergy Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter focuses on the career change that defined the last decade or so...
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‘For Duck can thresh, you know, as well as write’ Becoming ‘the famous Threshing Poet’ Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores how Stephen Duck’s public identity as ‘the famous Threshing...
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‘Various Beauties overpay my Toil’ Reimagining Landscape and Labour Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores how Stephen Duck’s approach to writing about rural landscapes...
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‘Too Severe on the Female Sex’? Negotiating Class and Gender Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores how Stephen Duck negotiated the competing hierarchies of gender...
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‘A very agreeable Conversation’ Making Friends with Horace Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores how Stephen Duck used his increasing proficiency in classical...
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Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet

Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet Get access

Jennifer Batt
Published online: 20 August 2020
Published in print: 18 June 2020
... DNB DP DPB Dryden, Works Duke of Cumberland ECLCP EM EP ESTC Every Man Stephen Duck, Alrick and Isabel (London: for J. Roberts, 1740). Applebee s Original Weekly Journal. Stephen Duck, An Ode on the Battle of Dettingen. Humbly Inscribed to the King (London: for R. Dodsley, 1743). British Journal...
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‘From the Author’s own Original Manuscript’ Publishing ‘the famous Threshing Poet’ Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores the frantic burst of publishing activity that followed Queen...
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‘The Duty of a grateful Muse’ Writing at Court Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 This chapter explores how Stephen Duck adapted to life as a poet at the court...
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Conclusion: ‘The Bard may die – the Thresher still survive’ Get access

Jennifer Batt
in Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, The Famous Threshing Poet
Published: 18 June 2020
...Class, Patronage, and Poetry in Hanoverian England: Stephen Duck, the Famous Threshing Poet. Jennifer Batt, Oxford University Press (2020). © Jennifer Batt. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198859666.001.0001 The concluding chapter explores how the narratives that developed around Stephen...