Feminine Interiority and Social Protest in the Poetry of Mary Leapor
(2025)
Journal Article
Yates, J. C. (in press). Feminine Interiority and Social Protest in the Poetry of Mary Leapor. ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, 13(2), https://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.13.2.1337
Mary Leapor (1722-46) is one of the many under-studied women poets of the eighteenth-century. She is often described as a laboring-class poet which, while historically accurate, implies her immediate marginalization as an writer by her class and gend... Read More about Feminine Interiority and Social Protest in the Poetry of Mary Leapor.