Beschreibung:

Poems, on Various Subjects, by Ann Yearsley, A Milkwoman of Clifton, near Bristol; being her second work, 1st edition, London: Printed for the Author, 1787, subscribers list present, includes five leaves of typescript notes relating to Ann Yearsley stapled together and attached to front blank (staples rusted and with consequent rust marks to title and following two leaves), includes two tipped-in one page autograph letters signed by Ann Yearsley to her publisher Joseph Cottle, both dated 15th December 1797, which mention her children and money matters, plus two additional engraved portrait plates of Yearsley (one stained), front pastedown with signature ink stamp of Macleod Yearsley & date 2 Mar 1935 beneath (possibly Percival Macleod Yearsley, 1867-1951), contemporary half calf, joints slightly cracked, spine a little rubbed, 4to The poet and writer Ann Yearsley, n�e Cromartie (1753-1806) was born in Bristol and married John Yearsley, a yeoman, in 1774. She bore six children in only seven years. A decade later the family were rescued from destitution by the charity of Hannah More and others. Hannah More organized subscriptions for Yearsley to publish Poems, on Several Occasions (1785). The success of the volume led to a quarrel between More and Yearsley over access to the trust in which profits from the undertaking were held. Yearsley was later supported by Frederick Hervey 4th Earl of Bristol, Yearsley published Poems, on Various Subjects in 1787. Yearsley was one of many Bristol women who campaigned against the Bristol slave trade and published A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade in 1788. She died in 1806 at Melksham, Wiltshire and her grave is in Birdcage Walk, Bristol. (1)