Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Paperback

by Jane Barker

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Galesia Trilogy and Selected Manuscript Poems of Jane Barker, Paperback by Barker, Jane; Wilson, Carol Shiner (EDT), ISBN 0195086511, ISBN-13 9780195086515, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Novelist, poet, manager of farm property, convert to Roman Catholicism, Jacobite in exile in France, and woman unmarried by choice, Jane Barker (1) wrote on a remarkable variety of subjects and displayed an equally remarkable variety of genres. Her multifaceted work is important in understanding the woman artist, the shifting literary marketplace, and the response of women to a society torn apart by endless wars, religious intolerance, and a legal and economic system that consistently disadvantaged them. Love Intrigues (1713), A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies (1723) and The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen (1726), the three novels that comprise The Galesia Trilogy , attest to her talents. In all three works, Galesia is Barker's semi- autobiographical narrator and heroine, whose voice becomes like that of a friend to the reader. The first work, an anti-romance celebrated for its psychological realism, captures the confusion and ambivalence of the young Galesia as she is courted by her rakish cousin. The second and third works include a dynamic range of pieces: popular tales of seduced nuns and lust for the high life in London, and more personal poems about Galesia's choice of the artistic life and her practice of the healing arts. Barker brilliantly structures the narratives of the s

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1997
• ISBN: 9780195086515
• Condition: Fine

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