Collected Works of Ann Yearsley

Kerri Andrews is Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Strathclyde, where her research interests include British print culture in the late eighteenth century/ early Romantic period, women's writing and labouring-class poetry. She is the author of a number of essays on the life and works of Ann Yearsley, including 'New letters, new poems: Ann Yearsley in context' (2010) and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2013).

'brings together for the first time all of Yearsley's surviving writings, showing the breadth and depth of her literary achievement ... a major milestone ... sheds important new light on Romantic-era women writers, the nature of patronage at the end of the eighteenth century, and Bristol's literary and political culture.' Notes and Queries 'These volumes are necessary: not merely to complete and correct the late twentieth-century rehabilitation of this understandably pugnacious writer who valued her own "savage, stubborn will", but more importantly, to demonstrate all the things it is that her poems know.' Times Literary Supplement

• Volume 1: Poetry and Letters This volume makes available all Yearsley's published and unpublished poetry. The core of the volume is her three published collections (Poems on Several Occasions; Poems on Various Subjects; The Rural Lyre) plus the occasional poems that appeared throughout her literary career. The volume contains several poems by Yearsley previously unknown to scholarship - some poems from her early career, and a sequence published in the periodical press during the late 1780s. Also included are all known surviving letters to, from or about Yearsley. General Introduction Bibliography Introduction Poems 1 Lines Addressed to the Revd Mr Leeves on his Visiting Stella to Cowslip Green 2 To Mr Grey Cowper 3 Night. To Stella 4 Thoughts on the Author's Own Death. Written when Very Young 5 To a Friend; on Valentine's Day 6 Another Valentine. To Another Person 7 To Mrs. V____n 8 A Fragment 9 On the Sudden Death of a Friend 10 To Mr. R____, on his Benevolent Scheme for Rescuing Poor Children from Vice and Misery, by Promoting Sunday Schools 11 To Mrs. M____s 12 To Stella; on a Visit to Mrs. Montagu 13 To the Same; on her Accusing the Author of Flattery, and of Ascribing to the Creature that Praise which is due only to the Creator 14 Soliloquy 15 Address to Friendship 16 To the Honourable H____e W____e, on Reading the Castle of Otranto. December, 1784 17 To Her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Portland 18 On Mrs. Montagu 19 Clift on Hill. Written in January 1785 20 To Stella 21 Extempore on the Author's being Reprov'd by her Mother and Brother when a Girl 22 Despondence 23 The Following Lines were Written Extempore with a Pencil in the Stock-Exchange 24 To Mr Chetwood 25 Ode on the Late Happy Reconciliation between His Majesty and the Prince of Wales: by Mrs. Yearsley 26 Lines, on Entering Lady Wallace's Study, her Ladyship being Absent. By Mrs. Yearsley, the Poetess of Bristol 27 Addressed to Sensibility 28 On the Death of Her Grace, the Duchess Dowager of Portland 2