Mary Barber (Q387373)

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Revision as of 14:32, 28 November 2021 by Olaf Simons (talk | contribs) (‎Removed claim: Biographical notes (P173): Overall: In 1730 Barber visited England, with Swift's support, to raise subscriptions for her Poems on several occasions, which obtained over 900 subscribers. Although she claimed in her Preface that public writing lay outside the province of women, and that she wrote her poems solely to educate her children, some of her work displays a particular social consciousness. The volume is dedicated to the Earl of Orrey, one of her most prominent pat...)
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* 1690, + 1755, Irish poet
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Mary Barber
* 1690, + 1755, Irish poet

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    Female gender
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    Poet
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    Date of birth
    1690
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    Date of death
    1755
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    Biographical notes
    Patrons: the earl of Orrery; In 1732 Swift unsuccessfully attempted to assist her by asking his friend the lord mayor of London to secure a position for her husband; gave her advice on publishing.
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    Author
    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
    Periodicals etc.: Tunbrigialia, or, Tunbridge Miscellanies, for the Year 1730 (contributed anonymously); some verse on gout in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1737; Poems by Eminent Ladies (1755)
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    Author
    Jacob Sider Jost/ Mary Naydan/ Noah Fusco, “Poets of the 1730s: A Digital Humanities Seedling” (2017/ 2021)
     

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