MB
composed a poem to mark the entry of one of her sons into the care of John Barber
(no relation), then Lord Mayor of London.
Barber, Mary et al. Poems on Several Occasions. C. Rivington.
232-3
Publishing
Anne Finch
The publisher was John Barber
. The book appeared that year (a time of hope for Jacobites, with Queen Anne
ill and the succession in doubt) with different title-pages and various imprints.
Eicke, Leigh. “’You that have borne the cause of Kings’: Anne Finch’s Jacobite Writing”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Milwaukee, WI.
Foxon, David F. English Verse 1701-1750. Cambridge University Press.
274-5
Copies of...
Family and Intimate relationships
Delarivier Manley
DM
was living, as she did for the rest of her life, with the publisher John Barber
, who was Lord Mayor of London, a Jacobite, and a friend of Swift.
Manley, Delarivier. “Introduction”. New Atalantis, edited by Ros Ballaster, Pickering and Chatto, p. v - xxviii.
