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Dr Jennifer Batt talks about Mary Leapor, an 18th Century kitchen maid who wrote accomplished verses and won accolades from literary society.

Date Published: 27 March 2012
Contributors:
Jennifer Batt
In Collection(s): Labouring-class writing, Celebrating women’s writing: the pen in their hands, Economic and Social Literary Criticism, Mary Leapor
Keywords:
#greatwriters, eighteenth-century, literature, great writers inspire, mary leapor, poem
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Mary Leapor by Jennifer Batt at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/mary-leapor. Published on 27 March 2012. Accessed on 12 January 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Mary Leapor (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Jennifer Batt, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).

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