Title: Lactilla, milkwoman of Clifton
First published: 1996
Description: Ann Yearsley was an English poet, playwright, and novelist who lived most of her life in a village near Bristol. Though she began her adult life as a milkwoman she later became the chief support of her family through her writing and proprietorship of a circulating library. This literary biography offers the most thoroughly researched and reasoned account to date of the complex political and social causes of Yearsley's gradual exclusion from the annals of literature.

In the particulars of Yearsley's story, Mary Waldron offers a fascinating example of how literary reputations can flourish or dwindle under the prevalent beliefs and preoccupations of a readership.
Subjects: Authors, English, Biography, English Authors, History, Milk trade, Women and literature, Women authors, Great britain, biography, English literature, women authors, English Women authors
Places: Clifton (Gloucestershire), Clifton (Gloucestershire, England), England, England) Clifton (Gloucestershire
People: Ann Yearsley (1753-1806)
Time periods: 18th century
LC classification: PR3779.Y4 Z95 1996