Mary Collier | |
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 Title page of Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck (London, 1739) | |
| Born | 9 October 1688 West Sussex |
| Died | 20 October 1762 (aged 74) |
| Resting place | Alton, Hampshire |
| Occupation | Washer-woman |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | English |
| Notable work | The Woman's Labour (1739) |
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Mary Collier (1688–1762) was an English poet, perhaps best known for The Woman's Labour, a poem described by one commentator as a "plebeian female georgic that is also a protofeminist polemic."[1]
- ^ Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796. Cambridge University Press, 1990, p. 28. ISBN 052137412X (Open Access at Internet Archive)