Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany

First comparative study of an unlikely group of authors: 18th-century women peasants. This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group of authors: eighteenth-century women peasants in England, Scotland, and Germany, women who, as a rule, received little or no formal education and lived by manual labor, many of them in dire poverty. Among them are the English washerwoman Mary Collier, the English domestic servants Elizabeth Hands and Molly Leapor, the German cowherd Anna Louisa Kars