A letter to my love
Subtitle: love poems by women first published in the Barbados gazette, 1731-1737
By: edited with an introduction, afterword, and notes by Bill Overton.
Contributors: Overton, Bill.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Newark
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Sansom, Martha Fowke, 1689-1736 -- Authorship.; Love poetry, English.; English poetry -- 18th century.; English poetry -- Women authors.
Other titles: Barbados gazette.
Description: "This is a critical edition of forty-one poems written by one or more women in England and first published in one of the earliest Caribbean newspapers, the Barbados Gazette. Twenty-six of the poems, assigned to a single unnamed author, constitute a sequence addressed to a man charting several stages of a love affair which ended unhappily. The remaining fifteen, which are also implicitly or explicitly of female authorship, may be by the same woman.

These are included for comparison, along with all the prefatory material provided in Caribbeana, the collection from the Barbados Gazette published in 1741. Fewer than half of the poems have been reprinted since that date, and the aim of the edition is to open them up to a wider audience."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes index.