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Overall: In her youth, Barker exchanged verse with other amateur poets, including a group of scholars at St John's College, Cambridge. Throughout her nearly 50 year writing career, she wrote "friendship epistles, odes, satires on affairs of state, religious dialogues from a Catholic perspective, and poetry on medical themes, as well as her novels." The DNB aptly summarizes her literary significance: "As a coterie and then court poet turned market place novelist, she exemplifies the emergence of female literary professionalism, her long and diverse writing life illustrating the shift from an amateur, court-centred manuscript-based literary system to the market-driven culture of print. She is an important Jacobite imaginative writer as well. Her verse-history ?Poems Refering to the Times? is a key Jacobite poetic text of the 1690s, while the later novels offer a sustained Catholic?Jacobite response to the declining fortunes of the Stuarts during the early Hanoverian period." | |||
| Property / Biographical notes: Overall: In her youth, Barker exchanged verse with other amateur poets, including a group of scholars at St John's College, Cambridge. Throughout her nearly 50 year writing career, she wrote "friendship epistles, odes, satires on affairs of state, religious dialogues from a Catholic perspective, and poetry on medical themes, as well as her novels." The DNB aptly summarizes her literary significance: "As a coterie and then court poet turned market place novelist, she exemplifies the emergence of female literary professionalism, her long and diverse writing life illustrating the shift from an amateur, court-centred manuscript-based literary system to the market-driven culture of print. She is an important Jacobite imaginative writer as well. Her verse-history ?Poems Refering to the Times? is a key Jacobite poetic text of the 1690s, while the later novels offer a sustained Catholic?Jacobite response to the declining fortunes of the Stuarts during the early Hanoverian period." / rank | |||
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* 1652-05-01 Northamptonshire, + 1732, British writer
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Jane Barker |
* 1652-05-01 Northamptonshire, + 1732, British writer |
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1 May 1652Julian
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1732
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Education: self-educated under the tutelage of her brother Edward, an MA of Christ Church, Oxford
Career: Poet; Novelist
Overall: In her youth, Barker exchanged verse with other amateur poets, including a group of scholars at St John's College, Cambridge. Throughout her nearly 50 year writing career, she wrote "friendship epistles, odes, satires on affairs of state, religious dialogues from a Catholic perspective, and poetry on medical themes, as well as her novels." The DNB aptly summarizes her literary significance: "As a coterie and then court poet turned market place novelist, she exemplifies the emergence of female literary professionalism, her long and diverse writing life illustrating the shift from an amateur, court-centred manuscript-based literary system to the market-driven culture of print. She is an important Jacobite imaginative writer as well. Her verse-history ?Poems Refering to the Times? is a key Jacobite poetic text of the 1690s, while the later novels offer a sustained Catholic?Jacobite response to the declining fortunes of the Stuarts during the early Hanoverian period."
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