Mary Collier
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Standard Name: Collier, Mary
Birth Name: Mary Collier
Used Form: Mary Collier, now a washer-woman, at Petersfield in Hampshire
, writing during the earlier eighteenth century, is the first of the known proletarian women poets. Her best-known work is a powerful modern georgic; she also published occasional poems, some of them proto-feminist, and biblical paraphrase.
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Texts
Ferguson, Moira et al. “Introduction”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, 1985, p. iii - xii.
Collier, Mary. Poems, on Several Occasions. Printed for the author, 1762.
Collier, Mary. The Poems of Mary Collier, The Washerwoman of Petersfield. W. Minchin.
Collier, Mary et al. “The Woman’s Labour”. The Thresher’s Labour and The Woman’s Labour, edited by Edward Palmer Thompson et al., Merlin, 1989.
Collier, Mary. The Woman’s Labour: An Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck. Printed for the author and sold by J. Roberts, 1739.