Novelist, religious convert, political poet, and sometime Jacobite spy, Barker wrote prolifically on a remarkable variety of subjects. 'A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies' (1723) and 'The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen' (1726) achieved immense popularity upon first appearance. Hybrid in genre, they include realistic stories, and romances interspersed with poems, hymns, odes, recipes, and religious and philosophical reflections that survey and critique the turbulent social, economic, and political scene of early eighteenth-century England.
| ISBN: | 9780195086508 |
| Publication date: | 3rd July 1997 |
| Author: | Jane Barker |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 378 pages |
| Series: | Women Writers in English 1350-1850 |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Poetry by individual poets |