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The regal garland : a pastoral : manuscript / by El. P.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Misc Mss Box 25 Folder 42
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- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Elizabeth, 1786-1869, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)--Drama.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).
- Women--Drama.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.
- Verse drama.
- Pastoral drama.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sold by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd. (Bristol, England), 2024.
- Physical Description:
- 1 item (32 pages) : paper ; 25 x 20 cm
- Production:
- England, circa 1805.
- Contained In:
- Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 25 Folder 42
- Summary:
- This play is written by a woman for women performers in the late Georgian era. Elizabeth Parker likely wrote it before 1806, when she married John Shelly (1781-1835) and changed her surname. Parker adopts a mock-pastoral tone for her play, using it for social debate and critique.
- Notes:
- Title from title page.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- Cited as:
- Elizabeth Parker, The Regal Garland (Misc Mss Box 25 Folder 42). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1460524492
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